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China-Backed Duterte Crony Gets Telecom Award

Cash-strapped entrepreneur pushes into telecoms field

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Mar 27, 2021
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There seems no stopping China’s net from gradually enveloping not just the Philippine seas but its commercial entities. Within days of the swarm attack by some 220 Chinese militia vessels, thinly disguised as fishing boats, on Whitsun reef off Palawan, the Senate almost unanimously gave a 25-year telecom license to Dito Telecommunity, now probably effec…

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