Dancing in the dark


  • Letters
  • Sunday, 06 Feb 2005

MANILA: That the Philippine government continues to flail at the immovable object that is Japan on the matter of its new policy of regulating the entry of Filipino entertainers poignantly illustrates the arid employment landscape on these fair isles. 

Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo and various other Philippine officials could well be dancing in the dark in their attempts to negotiate Japan’s reconsideration of its new policy that was formulated expressly to fight human trafficking. 

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