Philippines' Duterte loses patience, orders trash shipped back Canada


  • World
  • Wednesday, 22 May 2019

FILE PHOTO: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte arrives for the meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of People in Beijing, China on April 25, 2019. Kenzaburo Fukuhara/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

MANILA (Reuters) - President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered his government to hire a private shipping company to send 69 containers of garbage back to Canada and leave them within its territorial waters if it refuses to accept the trash, his spokesman said on Wednesday.

"The Philippines as an independent sovereign nation must not be treated as trash by other foreign nation," Presidential Spokesman Salvador Panelo told a media briefing.

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