MANILA - Thailand and Vietnam won deals to supply a total of 250,000 tonnes of rice
to the Philippines at a tender on Wednesday after The tender, the first under the two-month-old government of President Rodrigo Duterte , is part of the state's plans to import up to 1 million tonnes of rice to secure supply of the food staple through next year while prices are low. revising down their offers to just within Manila's budget.
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