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Father of Philippine star Charice stabbed to death

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 11:07 PM PDT

MANILA: The father of Philippine pop star Charice has been stabbed to death with an ice pick in a drunken street fight, police said Tuesday, as the singer cancelled an overseas tour to be with her family.

Construction worker Ricky Pempengco, 39, was stabbed repeatedly late Monday after an altercation with another drinker in a street in an agricultural town south of Manila, police said.

"They bumped into each other and from there, they got into a fight," said local police chief Senior Superintendent Gilbert Cruz.

Police are still searching for the suspect in the killing, he added.

The 19-year-old singer, famous under her first name, mourned her father in a post on Twitter and said they had been close until her parents separated when she was a young child, and the children stayed with their mother.

"We had a really great relationship before all the trouble started... I loved him and I will still love him. He's still my dad after all," she said in the tweet.

Philippine media have widely reported that her father's violent and abusive behaviour led to the family breakup.

Charice, who had been touring in Singapore with hit-making producer David Foster, said she would be pulling out of the concerts to be with her family in the Philippines.

Charice rose to international fame through performances posted on YouTube, eventually appearing on major US television shows such as the Ellen DeGeneres Show, the Oprah Winfrey Show and the musical series Glee.

AFP

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Thursday's picket will be peaceful, assures MTUC

Posted: 31 Oct 2011 11:03 PM PDT

KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) has given the assurance that the nationwide picket it plans to hold on Thursday will be peaceful.

MTUC secretary-general Abdul Halim Mansor said the picket, to protest the amendments to the Employment Act 1955 that was passed by the Dewan Rakyat on Oct 6, would not disrupt public order because it would be held after office hours from 5pm to 6.30pm.

He told Bernama when contacted that 18 locations had been identified for the picket and that the Inspector-General of Police had been informed about it.

"Based on my experience in my 30 years with MTUC, I can assure you that the picket to seek better deal for workers be peaceful," he said, adding that there would be 300 to 500 people expected at each location.

He said MTUC was not happy with the amendments, particularly the one about the appointment of a "contractor for labour", which allows employers to hire these contractors and not directly employing the workers.

This would mean that the workers were working for the contractor and not for the employers, he said, pointing out that the employers would have no direct responsibility over the welfare of the workers, particularly in terms of remittance to the Social Security Organisation and the Employees' Provident Fund.

"When a worker is injured in a workplace accident, how are we to deal with his compensation? This is going to be tricky because technically, the worker is not working with the employer, but he is doing work for the employer," he said.

He said the MTUC was also feeling unease with other amendments of the Act such as those affecting part-time workers and their salary and allowance payments.
"The amendments expose the workers to abuse especially in the hands of the contractors of labour.

"We want to resolve this domestically first, we don't want to bring this at the international level at this juncture," he added. -- BERNAMA

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