Sittwe, 3 October: "The markets of western Burma have for some time been flooded with shrimps and lobsters as the foreign buyers avoid buying them after the US imposed sanctions on Burma. In Sittwe, the capital of Rakhine State in Burma, while the price of rice the staple food of the people has doubled in last month alone, the price of a kilo of shrimp has gone down to a record low to one-fifth of the regular price, selling at about two thousand kyats, according to an official in the fisheries department..."