Philippines: Baguio Residents Rise Up Against Country’s Biggest Mall

Philippines: Baguio Residents Rise Up Against Country’s Biggest Mall Michael A. Bengwayan, 2012 Thousands of residents here, including thousands more around the country and around the world are up in arms against the nation’s biggest mall, the Shoe Mart Development Corporation (SMDC) because of the mall’s plan to cut or earth-ball 182 pine and alnus trees at Luneta Hill where SM is located. The protests stemmed from a petition I wrote on January 8...

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