Gasoline in Tawi-Tawi went from ₱95 per liter to ₱140–₱150 in bottles on the roadside — then disappeared. The Bongao emergency is a ground-level account of what supply chain collapse looks like in a remote fishing community.
Malaysia became the first country to fully adopt the ISO 20022 messaging standard for cross-border payments, completing the transition ahead of the SWIFT global deadline.