Asia’s EVolution: Inside the fight over the Philippines’ underground copper riches fuelled by electric vehicles

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In this first part of a series on electric vehicles in Asia, CNA examines how one of Southeast Asia’s largest untapped copper deposits in Mindanao could boost the Philippines’ role in the global EV supply chain.  KORONADAL, Philippines: The rough, juddering road to Tampakan is flanked by languid dogs and animated roosters, modest breeze-block houses and burning coconut husks. Small streams cut the path and signs warn of the risks of landslides in these mountains of upland Mindanao in the