11.   Battambang is a key rice bowl of Cambodia and also contains other resources including gemstones.

12.   But how long will a politically-suppressed people continue to suffer in silence when their jobs are gone and their rice bowls are empty?

13.   Deng put an end to the iron rice bowl, but he ruled with an iron fist.

14.   Even the rice bowls have changed.

15.   Jumbled piles of medical dressings, rice bowls, teapots, rolls of communications wire and other relics remain untouched.

16.   Ngai had stirred a communal rice bowl with a used spoon, he said.

17.   Taxpayers are generally happy about the proposal to scale back the iron rice bowl, but academics who study the civil service are sounding a cautionary note.

18.   Then they sit and tease delicate beats out of rice bowls with chopsticks and spoons.

19.   What makes it different is that it is the rice bowl of an industrial State - Selangor.