Philippines orders rice imports as typhoon costs mount

2009/10/11 23:00:11 @Reuters: International News

MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines ordered imports of 250,000 tonnes of rice on Monday as officials said two typhoons over the past 15 days had badly damaged farmlands and roads in the north and killed over 650 people. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=1-hjaM30bQM:r8zJrBVVXRI:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=1-hjaM30bQM:r8zJrBVVXRI:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=1-hjaM30bQM:r8zJrBVVXRI:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=1-hjaM30bQM:r8zJrBVVXRI:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=1-hjaM30bQM:r8zJrBVVXRI:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/1-hjaM30bQM" height="1" width="1"/
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