11.   In Tokyo, Japanese Foreign Minister Yukihiko Ikeda told reporters Wednesday that Japan no longer has surplus rice to donate to North Korea.

12.   My only wish is for my family to have enough rice and fried fish to eat.

13.   Now Mahinda says, they are lucky if they just have rice.

14.   Refugees told The Associated Press that because they had no rice, they had taken to eating edible parts of bamboo trees and wild fruit.

15.   She has rice from her own fields and raises her own chickens, pigsand goats.

16.   Some neighbours who still have some rice left in store have to share it with others.

17.   The country has imported rice from Thailand to anticipate a possible drop in rice production this year.

18.   Indonesia has imported rice over the past few years to offset a shortage in production.