Manila: The Philippines has recalled its ambassador to Canada, Manila’s foreign minister said, in an escalation of a festering diplomatic row over tonnes of trash shipped to the South-East Asian nation.
Ties have been deteriorating since a Canadian company sent around 100 shipping containers that included rotting rubbish wrongly labelled as recyclables to Philippine ports in 2013 and 2014.
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