Sentence examples for rice trader from inspiring English sources

Moussa Cissé, a rice trader in Senegal's southern town of Kédougou, said: "It has made things a bit difficult for us here because the weekly markets in [frontier towns] have completely shut down.

This web of connections, or guanxi, still sits at the heart of most overseas-Chinese groups.For instance, Bangkok Bank, one of the largest banks in South-East Asia, was started by a Chinese rice trader, Chin Sophonpanich, who built a regional network initially only by lending to other ethnic Chinese.

Started out in "bowl of Malaysia" as rice trader.

SUBHASH CHANDRA India Age: 48 Net worth: $600 million Onetime rice trader, now a media baron.

A high school dropout, AlBukhary came from a modest family and started out as a rice trader.

$680 million Age: 53 Married 4 children Country: Malaysia Former rice trader now has interests in Southeast Asia's fastest-growing container port, Tanjung Pelepas, and nearby Senai Airport, as well as in the country's largest independent power producer,Malakoff Berhad.He recently bought into Malaysian automaker DRB-Hicom.

Thai Petrochemical was established in 1978 by an ethnic Chinese family of rice traders, the Leophairatanas.

Margin traders rarely show up in stock-ownership surveys, although they are perhaps the heirs to the rice traders of old.

Varma, 62, from Northwood, Middlesex, whose company Veetee Rice is one of Britain's biggest rice traders, said he had been let down by Mittal.

Varma, 64, from Northwood, Middlesex, whose company Veetee Rice is one of Britain's biggest rice traders, declined to comment on the case on Friday, saying: "Let the courts decide if my claim is legitimate or not.

But rice traders said this had not pushed up world prices because Myanmar's exports were tiny and the country and aid agencies lacked the money to buy large quantities of rice on world markets.