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Sold into Syrian servitude, Filipina workers tell of abuse, rape and imprisonment Updated: January 24
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Print article DUBAI - Josephine Tawaging was being bundled off to the airport in a locked car, begging to be let out. She had traveled from her home in the Philippines a month earlier to find work in Dubai, the Middle East’s glitzy business hub, she later recalled. But her recruitment agency instead locked her in a dark and dirty dormitory with several other women, who soon learned they would all be sent to war-crippled Syria to be sold. As Tawaging, 33, was being driven to Dubai’s airport bound for Damascus, she protested one last time - and was slapped across the face. “They got angry with me and said, ‘if you don’t go, we’ll kill you,’ she said in an interview, recounting the ordeal in 2019. Today, she remains trapped in Syria.
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Cavite Governor Jonvic Remulla answers queries about the Sangley Point International Airport during interview with the Philippine Daily Inquirer in Makati City.
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MANILA (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN): The Cavite government is considering cancelling the award granted last year to a Chinese-Filipino venture for the initial phase of the P500-billion Sangley Point International Airport (SPIA) a new gateway meant to decongest Manila’s Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia).
A draft document from the province’s Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Selection Committee, which was seen by the Inquirer, showed a recommendation to terminate the Feb 12, 2020, award to the consortium of China Communications Construction Co. Ltd. (CCCC) and taipan Lucio Tan’s MacroAsia Corp.