Beijing, Feb 16 (Prensa Latina) China on Tuesday assured its support and confidence in Nigerian Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala s work as director-general of the World Trade Organization (WTO), by conveying congratulations on her appointment to hold that post.
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+ February 15, 2021 CLARK FREEPORT The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has renewed its bid to free more than half a million children who are into child labor.
Lawyer Ma. Karina Trayvilla, director of the Bureau of Workers with Special Concerns, said that while DOLE has yet to receive latest official data on the number of young Filipinos engaged in child labor, the government is nonetheless bent on removing about 630,000 of them from such condition by 2022. We understand that one of the root causes of child labor is poverty, but we are doubling our efforts to eliminate this. We have encountered difficulties in the implementation of the program due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but now we are ready to intensify the profiling of children in the country, Trayvilla said.
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February 15, 2021
GHALLANAI: Provincial chief of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F), Senator Maulana Attaur Rahman on Sunday urged the people of Mohmand tribal district to stand with his party for the protection of religious seminaries in the country.
“No one can remove Islamic articles from the Constitution in the presence of JUI workers and leaders,” he said this during a programme held in connection with the Khatmul Quran and Tafseer at Ramikhel here.
Senator Maulana Attaur Rahman said that the erstwhile Fata was merged in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa under a conspiracy hatched by the Western powers.
He said that people of merged districts were still facing a host of problems despite pledges made by the rulers about resolving their issues. The JUI senator said that hike in prices of food items and inflation were the country’s real issues but the incapable rulers cannot tackle them properly.