INTERVIEW/Philippines top envoy calls for abolition of 'criminal' broker fees
11/24/2021 03:32 PM
Taipei, Nov. 24 (CNA) 60,000 Philippine pesos -- That's the average placement fee paid by Filipino migrant workers to recruitment agencies, and something that the country's top envoy to Taiwan, Wilfredo B. Fernandez, hopes to abolish.
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