WHILE no untoward incidents marred the latest resupply mission for Filipino soldiers at Ayungin Shoal, the Philippine government should keep pressing on China to respect international laws and allow future missions to proceed unhampered, according to the chairman of the Senate Defense committee, who has called for a hearing on…
The country’s largest business associations, which employ the bulk of formal workers in the Philippines, totally rejected the planned legislated wage hike stating this move is more inimical to the estimated 42 million informal workers in the country as they cannot benefit from such a wage hike.