21.   The government has been importing rice and selling subsidized rice to long queues of poor people in cities and town across Indonesia for months.

22.   The government has never officially announced whether or not it will import rice, but individual officials have admitted that Indonesia has already imported rice.

23.   The government says it will need to import rice on a small scale this year, too.

24.   The Philippines often imports rice to meet local shortfalls.

25.   The Philippines will import rice next year but will temporarily shelve corn imports because of the depreciation of the peso, officials said Wednesday.

26.   The shortage forced the government to import rice from neighboring countries such as Thailand and Vietnam.

27.   The Philippines has been importing rice from Thailand and Vietnam in the past several years.

28.   We even have to import some rice.

29.   Agricultural officials have been blamed for not importing enough rice soon enough to avoid the crisis.

30.   Agriculture officials said they would only import enough rice to meet WTO obligations.