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Watch also in iWant or TFC.tv Several Philippine legislators and law professors expressed alarm over the possible control by foreigners of some critical industries.

That's after the House passed on second reading a bill proposing a 100 percent foreign ownership

of the country's telecommunications and transport sectors. - The World Tonight, ANC, February 20, 2020

 

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