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India agrees to sell rice to Malaysia

By ZAKIAH KOYA

PETALING JAYA: Malaysians can breathe a sigh of relief over rice shortage woes for now as India has agreed to export 170,000 tonnes of non-basmati white rice to Malaysia, says Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abd Kadir.

He said that he received the good news through a call from his Indian counterpart, External Affairs Minister Dr S. Jaishankar, on Wednesday.

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