Instead of having a labor union some manufacturing firms in export processing zones here opted to have a cooperative. Some examples are Yazaki and Intel. A mayor I was talking with earlier says that union fees in such firms amounts to several million pesos yearly. With this money, expectedly, unions are over politicized. This even resulted to the death of some union leaders in the past. (Some says pinapatay ng kalabang pulitiko, etc.)
I want to go to Palau. I have a college classmate from there who graduated magna cum laude. The brother of a Palau-an senator visited us earlier. They are into grouper (Epinephelus fuscoguttatus) farming and are looking for source of their inputs as there are no manufacturing plants in that place. Their main source of income is from tourism and the islands is a US territory. Their farming technology is from Israel and they're planning on selling live groupers in Japan, Hongkong and Taiwan. Yes, the usual reason: groupers are believed to have medicinal properties and have aphrodisiac effect if cooked/boiled live.