🇵🇭 Philippines: Storm in Subic Bay | 101 East

Filipinos celebrated when South Korea’s Hanjin Heavy Industries announced plans in 2005 to build ships in their country.

The company is the Philippines’ biggest foreign direct investor, pumping some $1.6bn into a shipyard in Subic Bay and employing nearly 22,000 Filipinos.

But six years later and Hanjin is under fire – 32 workers have died and 5,000 have been injured in work-related mishaps. Equally troubling are allegations that entire communities have been displaced as Hanjin expanded operations.

Now the aggrieved are fighting back. But it is an uphill battle against the world’s fourth largest shipyard worth billions of dollars of contracts.

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