Officials say cargo aircraft carrying rice and medicine have now begun arriving to try and ease the situation.

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"Handog sa Maralita" (Gift for the Poor) stands for Robin Hood-style holdups: in 1993, the ABB hijacked a rice truck and distributed its cargo among Manila's slum residents, while last year it plundered a food delivery van.

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He operates seven ships that carry dry bulk cargo iron ore, coal, rice, sugar around the world.

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Ng Swee Hong, his father, amalgamated interests that ranged from trading rice and other commodities and chartering out cargo vessels to running a shrimp and fish business in Taiwan.

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Rice said that China has been scrupulous in inspecting cargo shipments over its land border with North Korea.

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