Food crisis looms in Bangladesh
By JULHAS ALAM, Associated Press Writer

DHAKA, Bangladesh - For a 13-year-old boy in this impoverished, teeming city, some things are more important than classes — rice, for one.
I need to eat first, then school," said Mohammad Hasan, standing at the back of a line of hundreds of people waiting to pick up government-subsidized rice.

With the price of food skyrocketing around the world, desperately poor and overpopulated Bangladesh is considered one of the world's most vulnerable nations.

An adviser to the country's Ministry of Food, A.M.M. Shawkat Ali, warned of a "hidden hunger" in Bangladesh and economists estimate 30 million of the country's 150 million people could go hungry — a crisis that could become a serious political problem for the military-backed government.

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