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September 5, 2012

FIFTH HEARING ON RICE SMUGGLING: Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile listens as Senator Kiko Pangilinan, chair of the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Food, question officials of Metro Eastern Trading Corp., and Amira C Foods International DMCC regarding a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) entered into by both parties for the transshipment, handling, safekeeping, warehousing and unloading of 420,000 sacks of Indian rice at the Subic Bay Free Port Zone. The alleged illegal shipment was part of a batch of six vessels that were bound for Indonesia. (PRIB Photo by Alex Nuevaespaña/September 5, 2012)

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