While ASEAN leaders meet in Cebu province, shoppers and vendors a few kilometres away say rising fuel prices and living costs overshadow summit rhetoric.
Residents report cutting back on electricity, medicines and travel as police deployments accompany the gathering.
Al Jazeera’s Jamela Alindogan reports from Cebu province, Philippines.
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