MANILA: Even if China grants the Philippines enormous loans to ramp up infrastructure development, the law still prohibits the hiring of foreign construction workers, according to the head of President Rodrigo Duterte’s economic team.
That is not the government’s policy to import labour, Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III told reporters recently.
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