Rats in the Aid Kitchen

As much as 27.4 tons of rice donated by the United Nations for distribution to the poor has gone missing. Were NGO activists involved?

December 18, 2001

The rice is still neatly stacked in A. Hongs store at Block HB No. 9, the Central Market, Cipinang, East Jakarta. When the police raided his store two weeks ago, the rice sacks bearing a red, rising sun symbol still looked new. The 27.4 tons of Thai rice were not just any old rice. This was, in fact, cheap rice that had been donated by the government of Japan to feed 500 poor households under the auspices of the World Food Program (WFP), a UN foo

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