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Vietnam Rice Export Prices Scale Eight-Year Peak As Rains Hamper Harvest

Vietnamese rice export prices hit their highest in more than eight years as traders struggled to meet rising demand and heavy rains hampered harvest in the...

India Rice Prices Retreat From Highs, Vietnam Sees Fresh Offers

Indian export rice prices retreated this week from a more than one-year peak that slowed demand, while Vietnamese rates held near a two-year high...

EU Trade Pact To Support Vietnam's Coronavirus Recovery: World Bank

A free trade agreement with the European Union set to soon be ratified by Vietnam should boost the Asian nation's economic recovery from the coro...

India Rice Prices Gain, Expensive Thai Offers Lose Out

Rice export prices from India held near a nine-month high this week on strong demand from buyers in both Asia and Africa, with Thailand losi...

Coronavirus Brews Trouble For Tea, Disrupts Supply As Demand Spikes

The COVID-19 outbreak is causing a rare stir in the usually staid global tea market, with labour lockdowns stifling supplies just as millions in lockdown d...

Vietnam Halts New Rice Export Contracts As It Reviews Stocks

Vietnam will not sign any new rice export contracts until 28 March at the earliest as it checks whether it has sufficient domestic supplies to cope du...

Thai Drought Raises Rice Supply Jitters, Vietnam Rates At Over One-Year High

Drought conditions in Thailand stoked concerns of a supply shortage and lifted rice export prices to a more than six-and-a-half-year high this we...

Vietnam's Rice Export Prices Climb To Over 1-Year High On Strong Demand

Vietnam's rice export prices surged to a more than one-year high this week on strong demand from the Philippines and Malaysia, while rates for the Indian v...