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The cracked soil at a dried up rice field in the town of Baliuag, Bulacan Province, north of Manila, symbolizes the Philippines' current rice plight. © Reuters
MIKHAIL FLORES, Nikkei staff writer | Philippines
MANILA -- Ronald Gabuat regularly waits half an hour to buy subsidized rice at a market in a northern area of the capital, but on a recent visit he had no luck.
"Only a handful of people were able to get any rice," the 42-year-old security guard said. "People were angry with the shortage."
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