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Metrobank Foundation, Inc., (MBFI) and Pilipinas Shell Foundation, Inc. (PSFI) signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) on 6 November 2023 in Makati City for the implementation of a three-year, community-based, and multi-sectoral program to address undernutrition in economically disadvantaged communities in Camarines Sur. Dubbed as Roots to Shoots, the 7.2-million-peso…
A group of Chinese immigrant workers is suing over forced labor and human trafficking claims that stem from an illegal marijuana growing operation in northwestern New Mexico. The complaint filed Wednesday in state court names Navajo businessman Dineh Benally and Los Angeles-based entrepreneur Irving Lin as defendants, among others. The complaint states the workers were lured to New Mexico under false pretenses and forced to work 14 hours a day trimming marijuana at a motel. They claim they were prohibited from leaving and were never paid. Authorities ended up destroying a quarter-million plants at nearly two dozen farms in the Shiprock area, and the tribe sued Benally.
Chinese immigrant workers allege they were lured to northern New Mexico under false pretences and forced to work 14 hours a day trimming marijuana on the Navajo Nation where cultivating the plant is illegal.