New Filipino community center to open in Bahrain

A new community center for Filipinos will rise in Bahrain as part of initiatives that will be unveiled by the Philippine Embassy to improve bilateral relations, according to a report on DT News Bahrain.

Philippines Ambassador to Bahrain Alfonso Ver said the community center will be opened at the embassy to promote the Philippines to Bahrainis and to celebrate the embassy's 40th anniversary.

Ver added that more high-level missions are planned in 2018 to improve trade between the Philippines and Bahrain.

President Rodrigo Duterte signed a $250-million investment agreement during his visit to the Gulf country in April that will expand a Bahraini company's agricultural operations to the Philippines.

Ver himself accompanied a delegation from the Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Bahrain Arabic Club, and the ASEAN-Bahrain Business Council to the Philippines on a trade visit to the country. —Rie Takumi/KBK, GMA News