Local performing artists, as well as showbiz personalities, see as a positive development the criminal charges being pressed against Canadian citizen John Michael Roda, promoter of hip hop singer Chris Brown, who reneged on their contract to hold Brown’s concert at the Philippine Arena last December.

I learned that Filipino singers and even fashion models have had to endure unfair competition from foreign talents who come in droves without even securing work permit from the Bureau of Immigration.

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