The issue of the growing number of illegal Chinese workers in the country, and why their proliferation seems to have gone unchecked, largely took a backseat during the election-period fiesta. Buried in the cacophony of the closing campaign days, for instance, was a report about 87 Filipino workers rescued from inhumane conditions in an illegal Chinese-operated cigarette factory in Marilao, Bulacan. The workers were practically detained and made to do forced labor for months, in deplorable
The 2019 midterm elections have come but are not entirely gone; serious questions about possible fraud remain. We can all be sure of one thing. The Commission on Elections dropped the ball; the country’s fourth automated election should have been a cinch. On the national level, the scale of defeat of
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