Typhoon Pablo damaged coconut crops that amounted to a loss of P33 billion.
“Remember, WTO is war, we should have gotten ready. But we just opened up,” he said.
Ten foreign chambers have expressed interest in putting up investments and linkages here in the region, with the European chamber batting for interest in agriculture and biotechnology.
The proposed facility for US troops in Cotabato City would be seen as an intrusion into the Bangsamoro homeland and would be regarded as "direct US intervention in Mindanao", a militant Moro group said.
A Thailand-based international advocacy group is urging governments belonging to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) to conduct speedy investigations into cases of enforced disappearances “to bring an immediate end to enforced disappearances and ensure justice for the victims and their families.”