Tawi-Tawi ecozone

Peter Pun, Chairman of AllRight Inc. LMTD (third from left), shakes hands with former Tawi-Tawi Gov. Hadji Sadikul A. Sahali to seal an agreement for the planned Tawi-Tawi special economic zone and international transshipment port project over the weekend at the Panglima Sugala municipal gymnasium. Flanking them are (from left) William Ong, Director of Sulu Sultanate Corp.; Senator Koko Pimentel, senatorial candidate Francis ‘Tol’ Tolentino, and Datu Mohammad Kiram, President of DMK Sulu Arche Oil. They also presided over a groundbreaking ceremony in Kalupe (inset) for the planned P15-billion ecozone, which the Mindanao Development Authority has endorsed to turn the island province into a major trading post in Southeast Asia.