Co-op summit tackles Asean integration poser

MORE than 4,000 stakeholders attending the 12th National Cooperative Summit will address challenges and opportunities for the local cooperative movement ahead of integration of economies of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) in 2015 during the three-day (October 16-18) conference, organizers said on Thursday.

Doris Cañares, chairman of the Philippine Cooperative Center (PCC), said the cooperators “are living in a world where socio-economic shifts continue to move at a very fast pace. The faster these shifts move, they equally create the precise frame of mind for each and every one of us to catch up, learn and adopt new processes that are deemed to help improve and uplift the lives not only individually, but collectively as well.”