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Food shortage

Hun Sen: Orec can solve world hunger

Phnom Penh (Agencies) - Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said on
Monday that the Opec-style rice cartel proposed by Thailand would
ensure global food security, not increase hunger and poverty as
critics say.

Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej said last week there was an agreement
in principle to form what he calls Organisation of Rice Exporting
Countries by Burma, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia. The Mekong-region
nations hope they can run a group similar to the oil cartel Opec.

Hun Sen said during a university graduation ceremony in Phnom Penh
that the cartel would never try to manipulate markets like Opec. It
would only seek to ensure global food security.

"We will not only ensure food security in each of our own countries,
but will help solve the entire problem of (food) shortages across the
region and the world," Hun Sen said.

"When there are shortages, we will not stockpile the rice or increase
prices," the premier said. "We really want to help ensure food
security."

The Asian Development Bank said it hated the idea. Senior Philippines
officials have blasted the proposal as "anti-poor", designed to
increase hunger and poverty.

Hun Sen urged them to stop. "The formation of the organisation is not
meant to strangle the throats of countries that do not have rice," he
said.

The five proposed members of the cartel will discuss the organisation
at regional talks in October, Hun Sen said, adding that the Mekong
river nations would export up to 15 million tonnes of rice a year -
10 million by Thailand.

Hun Sen last week appealed to farmers to grow more rice in order to
profit from the increased global food crisis.

I Never Said It Would Be Easy

There's so many times, as life we go through.
Things we want to learn, seems almost impossible to do.
We turn to God in prayer, he will not let us just quit.
We find no matter how hard the task, in the end it was worth it.

God sent down his son, who for us he would die.
Yes God did pay the cost, and we were his reason why.
Our Lord would walk up the hill, for our sins to repent.
He never said it would be easy, yet to God we were worth it.

There were those who would mock him, the son of God that day.
While others bowed before him, for our sins he would pay.
Jesus knew the pain he would bare, yet he would suffer through it.
He knew it would not be easy, but he knew we were worth it.

If in sin your life you are living, just reach out to our Lord.
Let him wrap his arms around you, and protect you for evermore.
Though it has not been easy, to our Lord you can repent.
A mansion in heaven awaits you, God knows you have earned it.

Love Is Like Magic

Love Is Like Magic

Love is like magic
And it always will be
For love still remains
Life's sweet mystery

Love works in ways
That are wondrous and strange
And there's nothing in life
That love cannot change

Love can transform
The most commonplace
Into beauty and splendor
And sweetness and grace

Love is unselfish
Understanding, and kind
For it sees with its heart
And not with its mind

Love is the answer
That everyone seeks
Love is the language
That every heart speaks