Taiwan slams RP’s deportation of 14 nationals to China
02/04/2011President Aquino and his government have again ruffled economic-diplomatic feathers.
Taiwan has denounced the Philippine govern-ment’s deportation of 14 Taiwanese involved in racketeering to China and warned the Aquino administration that it will “reexamine” its relations with Manila as a consequence.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Taiwan, in a statement, said the Aquino administration’s
handling of case was a “violation of the jurisdiction principle of nationality and its own legal procedures.”
Taiwan expressed “strong protest” and will “seriously reexamine its exchanges, “ including its cooperation projects, with the Philippines , the ministry said.
Taiwan is home to around 100,000 Filipino workers. Around 20,000 work as caregivers, earning at least P30,000 a month while the rest are employed in electronic assembly and manufacturing factories..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20110204hed4.html
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