Malacañang on Friday said the cross-border trade between the Philippines and Malaysia will reopen next month, almost a year after it was shut down.

Quoting Mindanao Development Authority Secretary Abdul Khayr Alonto, Presidential spokesman Ernesto Abella said that starting on February 1, the ban on barter trade between Sabah, Malaysia and island provinces of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) will be lifted.

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