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DATELINE: Cebu, Philippines
The postponement of the much-heralded Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit has left the people of Cebu disappointed, and in some cases, a bit poorer. Months of preparation in the major city of the central Philippines evaporated overnight when the government decided to postpone the event because of an approaching typhoon. VOA's Heda Bayron reports from Cebu.
Construction workers had labored 24 hours a day, seven days a week over the past several months to finish the $10 million Cebu International Convention Center in time for the diplomatic extravaganza.
But on Saturday, two days before leaders of the Association of Southeast Nations, or ASEAN, and of other major Asian nations were to sit down for talks, the only people filling...