SERDANG, April 28 — The purchase limit for 10-kg local white rice priced at RM26 has been raised to five bags per transaction, from two bags previously.

PHNOM PENH, April 11 — The Asean multilateral emergency rice reserve agency has delivered 3,500 metric tonnes of white rice to support humanitarian food relief efforts in Myanmar following the recent severe earthquake.

KOTA BHARU, March 13 — The Agriculture and Food Security Ministry (MAFS) has introduced measures to ensure an adequate supply of local white rice in supermarkets nationwide, said its minister Datuk Seri Mohamad Sabu.

KUALA SELANGOR, April 6 — State executive councillor for local government Dato’ Ng Suee Lim has called for the Federal government to review the ceiling price of local white rice which has been stagnant for over a decade and a half.

PADANG BESAR, April 1 — The government has decided that its institutions like the military, police, schools, hostels, and hospitals will use imported white rice from today onwards so the people can obtain local rice.

PUTRAJAYA, March 27 — Malaysia has requested for an additional 500,000 tonnes of white rice from India, said Agriculture and Food Security Minister Datuk Seri Mohamad Sabu.

PUTRAJAYA, March 19 — The government, via the National Action Council on Cost of Living (NACCOL), has agreed to reduce the retail price of imported white rice by RM2 to RM3 effective tomorrow.

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 19 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has refuted the allegations that the Malaysia Madani white rice proposal would support cartel activities which mix Local White Rice (SST) and Imported White Rice (SSI).

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 17 — The government has yet to decide on introducing a single grade of white rice known as the Malaysia Madani white rice.

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 15 — The introduction of Malaysia Madani white rice has been described as a forward-thinking move and demonstrates the government’s commitment to addressing people’s concerns in a timely manner.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 18 — The year-end rice harvest by the Muda Agricultural Development Authority (Mada) has helped ease the local white rice supply shortage in the country, said Agriculture and Food Security Minister Datuk Seri Mohamad Sabu.

KEPALA BATAS, Nov 17 — The Agriculture and Food Security Ministry (KPKM) will hold a discussion with other relevant ministries regarding the proposal to create a single grade for white rice, said Minister Datuk Seri Mohamad Sabu.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 19 — The Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security will discuss the Indian government's approval to export 170,000 tonnes of non-Basmati white rice to Malaysia.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 19 — The Indian government approved the export of 170,000 metric tonnes of non-Basmati white rice to Malaysia yesterday as a special friendly gesture between the two countries.

PUTRAJAYA, Oct 6 — All the rice wholesale premises in Selangor inspected under Local White Rice Integrated Operations were found to have adequate stocks of local and imported white rice.

JOHOR BAHRU, Sept 5 — The Agriculture and Food Security Ministry is confident that white rice production in the country will recover within a month through the Special Local White Rice Programme.