Unbeknownst to many, Palawan serves as the only place in the Philippines that homes the Asian small-clawed otter, a semiaquatic mammal claimed to be the smallest otter species in the world, according to some leading experts.
The Philippines was the overall champion with 149 gold, 117 silver and 121 bronze medals amassing 387 medals altogether. Vietnam came second with 98 gold, 85 silver, and 105 bronze medals a total of 288.
The consensus surfaced during the 2nd Budayaw Festival held last November in the City of Kuching in the Federal State of Sarawak, Malaysia, a biennial event of the Brunei Darussalam-Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines East ASEAN Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA).
