Top business groups rally behind DFA to protect investor confidence

Business groups want anti-China casket stunt probed

Business groups condemned the recent use of caskets displaying anti-communist and anti-China messages and called for the conduct of swift investigation as it warned of possible negative effects on investments, trade and tourism.

Top business groups rally behind DFA to protect investor confidence

Top business group warned that public intimidation tactics threaten foreign direct investment, international trade, and tourism at a delicate moment for the country’s economic expansion.In a statement on Sunday, Aug. 9, six leading commercial associations rallied behind the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) in condemning the deliberate abandonment of caskets across Metro Manila as visual threats. The coalition cautioned that unchecked hostilit…