Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, bottom left, talks to rescuers as he visits an earthquake-damaged building where operations continue for trapped people in Porac town, Pampanga province, northern Philippines on Tuesday. (Richard Madelo/Malacanang Presidential Photographers Division via AP)MANILA: Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte berated Canada on Tuesday in a longrunning dispute over waste exported to the Southeast Asia nation, threatening to sail it back to Canada. Manila has filed several diplomatic protests with Canada over tons of waste shipped to the Philippines between 2013 and 2014. "For Canada's garbage, I want a boat prepared," Duterte told officials after being briefed on an earthquake that struck the Philippines on Monday. "They better pull that thing out or I will set sail to Canada and dump their garbage there," Duterte added.

Source: Bangkok Post April 24, 2019 07:52 UTC