plastic wrapping and rice sacks could save money and look fashionable. [2] Using a foot-operated sewing machine, the 51-year-old seamstress in the Philippines stitches and weaves plastic and other ...

The Philippines yesterday declared a food security emergency in order to bring down the price of rice, which officials said have remained high despite last year’s cuts to the tariffs on imported ...

Sixteen rice sacks total. It was so bad the plastic was beginning calcification. “The Philippine people are a proud people, sadly it’s not in being clean or taking care of the environment.

The donation, equivalent to 100,000 sacks of rice weighing 40 kilograms each, was shipped in two batches from South Korea to the Philippines in December. The final shipment arrived on January 20.