This file photo taken on September 9, 2015, shows environmental activists rallying outside the Philippine Senate in Manila to demand that scores of containers filled with household rubbish be shipped back to Canada. AFP
This file photo taken on September 9, 2015, shows environmental activists rallying outside the Philippine Senate in Manila to demand that scores of containers filled with household rubbish be shipped Show more

Asia

Philippines recalls envoy after Canada misses deadline to take home its trash

President Duterte set Canada a May 15 deadline to take back 100 shipping containers of rotting rubbish wrongly sent to Manila five years ago

AFP

May 16, 2019