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Amid reports of alleged human rights violations against trade unionists, the International Labour Organization is "observing with regret" that the Duterte administration has failed to update them on the clear progress of investigations mounted to probe these incidents.
Published April 8, 2021, 5:01 PM
Opposition Senator Francis ‘’Kiko’’ Pangilinan on Thursday, April 8, said the Philippine intelligence community should focus its attention on what China is doing at the Julian Felipe reef, a part of Philippine territory, and not nit-pick on small entities such as the Senate employees’ union.
Senator Francis Pangilinan
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The National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA) should also look into the entry of some four million Chinese nationals into the country since 2017, he added.
Pangilinan, president of the Liberal Party, said he supports the stand of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana on the continued refusal of a big number of Chinese armed militia vessels at Julian Felipe reef and nearby reefs.
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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, April 7) The Senate president is not taking lightly allegations that some Senate employees are sympathizers of rebel groups.
In a message to reporters on Wednesday, Senator Vicente Tito Sotto III described as unfounded a social media post by National Intelligence Coordinating Agency director general Alex Paul Monteagudo that said members of the Senate union, the Sandigan ng mga Empleyadong Nagkakaisa sa Adhikain ng Demokratikong Organisasyon (SENADO), were working as the eyes and ears of the CPP-NPA-NDF. He sent word saying they are just telling our people that the CPP has tentacles even in the halls of the Senate through COURAGE, a CTG organization. I said I want NICA to give me the names of the employees and I will have them investigated. But because of this, I am now inclined to support the criminalizing of red tagging, said Sotto.