Dhaka, 15 September: "After chemical fertilizers, rice is the new hot item added to the list of commodities smuggled into Burma, reported the vernacular daily Prothom Alo in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The rice from Bangladesh is being smuggled through 18 points of the porous Bangla Burma border, it said. The recent price hike of rice in Rakhine (Arakan) State in the western part of Burma has spurred the smuggling of Bangladeshi rice. .."