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HONG KONG AUTHORITIES ACTED WITH DISRESPECT IN DETAINING DEL ROSARIO – GORDON

Senator Dick Gordon said Hong Kong authorities acted with disrespect and exhibited lack of good judgment in the manner they have treated former Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario, who was detained for hours at the Hong Kong airport for undisclosed reasons. Gordon pointed out that with Del Rosario’s pronouncements, too, on the abandonment of […]

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HOUSE OVERSIGHT HEARING ON PASSPORT DATA BREACH WELCOMED – BERTIZ

ACTS-OFW Partylist Rep. Aniceto Bertiz III has welcomed House Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s decision to conduct an oversight hearing or legislative briefing on the suspected passport data breach at the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA). Bertiz, a member of the House committee on overseas workers affairs, said it is important that leaders and members of the […]

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ALLOCATE ADDITIONAL BUDGET TO DFA FOR EXPERTS TRAINING – GORDON

In line with his proposal that the country’s diplomatic service should train and become experts on the countries that they are posted to, Senator Dick Gordon has proposed the allocation of additional budget to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA). Gordon said the members of the diplomatic service are not only the country’s representatives, but […]