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Chuck Anastacio (May 11, 1955-December 18, 1982; born Marciano P. Anastacio Jr.) - Chuck Anastacio was an urban poor community and labor organizer who played key roles in the 1975 La Tondeña Distillery strike and in the unionization of workers of Gelmart Industries Philippines. When a military agent shot him in the face and left him for dead ...
Date Branch Department Party People Involved Summary Source 1946 Executive: Office of the President: Liberal: Manuel Roxas: Surplus War Property scandal- disposed $90 billion of surplus war property held by the United States government in the final year of World War II, which caused a huge corruption scandal that led to the rise of the leftist HUKBALAHAP and for Roxas's approval ratings to ...
Philippine Social Development Foundation, Inc. (PSDFI) [8] Social Development Program for Farmers Foundation, Inc. (SDPFFI) [8] References
Primark, a leading high street fashion chain, has been blamed that three of its Indian suppliers are using child labour in their factories. After BBC Panorama’s six months undercover investigation, they discovered the Indian suppliers were sub-contracting middlemen who employed children at Bhavanisagar refugee camp.
The Priority Development Assistance Fund scam, also called the PDAF scam or the pork barrel scam, is a political scandal involving the alleged misuse by several members of the Congress of the Philippines of their Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF, popularly called "pork barrel"), a lump-sum discretionary fund granted to each member of Congress for spending on priority development ...
Today, 36 U.K.-based businesses rallied for lawmakers to tighten due diligence on human rights and environmental gray areas. Asos, Primark, Tesco and the British Retail Consortium are among the ...
Primark Town Center is a Philippine community mall chain. It forms part of the LKY Group, one of the Philippines' largest land developers. [ 3 ] The management is handled by Philippine Primark Properties, Inc., and headed by Wilbert T. Lee as the company's president and CEO.
“Edjop” was a graduate of the Ateneo de Manila University and a labor rights activist. He was arrested and tortured in 1979 until he was able to escape and go into hiding. Military men later found him and sought to take him into custody, but he was shot before he could escape. [29] Emmanuel "Eman" Lacaba. “Eman” was a writer, poet ...