Parañaque shuts down 15 more Chinese-run businesses, closes ‘Chinese-only’ restaurants
Credit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 08:52:52 +0000
FIFTEEN more Chinese-run establishments in Parañaque City found to have been operating without necessary permits were ordered closed by the local government, bringing to 33 the businesses closed down in more than a month.
Ordered closed were Shangyin Restaurant, operated by a certain James Wong.; YY Shabu Shabu and Grill, registered to Zhao Wie; Sticklove Restaurant, registered to Maria Luisa Timon; Parkson Mart, a convenience store, registered to Jackie Chan; LSSA Entrance Food Mart, operated by Carolyn Techeco; and All Things Supermart named to Robert Ong.
Melanie Soriano-Malaya, city business permits and licensing office chief, said restaurants serving Chinese nationals exclusively have sprouted near gated subdivisions in Barangay Moonwalk.
For the past five days, Soriano-Malaya said she has served closure orders to 33 Chinese-owned or managed restaurants and business establishments found to be either violating local ordinances or operating without the necessary permits.
“Almost all of these business establishments had no necessary requirements from the city government, local health office and even from the Bureau of Fire Protection since they started their operation last year,” she said.
Six of these establishments, located in Multinational Village in Barangay Moonwalk, were found violating several city ordinances.
Last June 20, the Bureau of Immigration has arrested 35 Chinese working at a construction site in Multinational Village despite the government’s policy banning foreigners from engaging in manual labor.
Authorities said that the construction workers could not present any documents to show they may work in the country and some even presented themselves as only tourists.
Parañaque Mayor Edwin Olivarez ordered Soriano-Malaya to padlock seven more business establishments late Wednesday in Barangay Tambo.
These are Zan Cuo Restaurant, registered to Rex Sangga Dadezon; Ja Borja Restaurant; Aimai Minimart, owned by Jessica Frias; Golden Spring Restaurant, registered to Wilbert Ong; Tming’s Guilin Noodle House, registered to Sadie Wright; Nava Restaurant; and Mountain Fire BBQ Restaurant, owned by Regine Umipig.
Apart from the 13 which have been closed down, two more Chinese-only restaurants in Barangay Baclaran with incomplete requirements from the city government were closed.
These were: All Things Supermart owned by Robert Ong and Tengmeng Mini Mart, a food commissary, owned by Lelybeth Buitizon.
“This will be a citywide crackdown against erring foreign-owned restaurants and stores. Promise, no ningas kugon,” said Olivarez, reminding foreigners that they cannot work in the city without the necessary permits and this include blue collar jobs that our countrymen can do themselves.
Soriano-Malaya said the erring establishments also violated city ordinances on sanitation code, septage management system and the foreign signs to provide an English translation.
She added that they also discovered that the Chinese working as restaurant cooks, waitresses and staff had no valid work permits and visas.
City hall officials disclosed that majority of the Chinese-owned restaurants were using Filipino dummies.
Reports of Chinese-only restaurants also mushroomed in the southern part of Metro Manila, with local officials saying this practice is illegal and discriminatory to Filipinos. NEIL JAYSON N. SERVALLOS
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