Officials from Vietnam, a leading export competitor with Thailand, predict prices will reach about This week the Philippines' National Food Authority offered almost $665 a ton for 600,000 tons of Vietnamese rice.
VOA: standard.2009.12.17
"I did tons of research and was offered a lot of options, " he said.
Just this weekend, the Soviet Union offered Romania additional energy resources (390, 000 tons of oil for January and 22 million cubic meters of natural gas daily) to help cushion the latter against the winter's expected hardships, hardships likely to be exacerbated by severe shortages and dislocations following the recent revolution.
Britain's Optimum Population Trust offered summit attendees an opportunity to offset the estimated 1.1 tons of carbon emissions released into the atmosphere from their trans-Atlantic flights by donating money to a family planning program.