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All they want for Christmas is a ticket home. But the 12 Filipino seafarers who were forced to stay on board their ship that was grounded in Greece for �unpaid cargo claims" would have to ask harder, Akbayan Party-list Representative Walden Bello said...
Tags: Walden Bello, Greece, Philippine Embassy, Athens, Akbayan Citizens' Action Party, Socialist International, Bello
Former Philippine president Fidel Ramos has urged Overseas Filipino Workers in Qatar to help their country recover from economic downturn by upholding the Filipino spirit of unity of purpose, solidarity in values and teamwork in nation building. Likening...
Tags: Fidel Ramos, Philippines, Philippine Embassy, Qatar, Doha
A three-member delegation of Philippine congressmen is to arrive in the Kingdom on Wednesday to look into allegations of abuse against Overseas Filipino Workers and ascertain what the Philippine Embassy in Riyadh and the Consulate General in Jeddah have...
Brigade� or �Tulong Alalay sa mga Biktima ng Bagyong Ondoy (Support for the Victims of Typhoon Ondoy) with a hotline 5522623 (Frank), 5532289 (Flor), 5408806 (Jun) and 5412415 (Cristina) for those who would like to extend monetary assistance. Cabrito...
Floodwaters covered Metro Manila and its outskirts as a Tropical Storm Ondoy struck the eastern side of the country on Saturday, government agencies said. The storm, bearing winds of 85 kilometers per hour with gusts of 100 kilometers, hit the main island...
Tags: manila, rain, Metro Manila, Philippines, Gilberto Teodoro, dead, Philippine Embassy, Tropical Storm Ketsana
A Filipino migrants group based in the United Kingdom has announced it will stage a picket protest on Friday in front of the London�s Riverbank Plaza Hotel at 3:15 p.m. (local time). President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is scheduled to give a keynote speech...
Tags: Philippines�Filipinos, United Kingdom, Philippine Embassy, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Saudi Arabia, London, Department of Foreign Affairs, Manila, Philippines
The Malaysian Foreign Ministry said Finardo Cabilao, the social welfare attache at the Philippine Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, was found dead by embassy officials in his home on Friday after he failed to show up for work. The ministry said in a statement it...
Tags: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysian Foreign Ministry, Finardo Cabilao, Philippine Embassy, social welfare
President Barack Obama met Thursday at the White House with Philippine President Gloria Arroyo. Mr. Obama stressed the importance of U.S. ties with the Philippines. Those ties go back years.
Tags: Arroyo-Obama, U.S. Philippines Friendship Caucus, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Barack Obama, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Glorio Arroyo, Ms Arroyo, Philippine Embassy, presidency gloria, presidency barack
Two more Filipino seafarers who were kidnapped in Nigeria last May 13 were rescued by Nigerian authorities, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Thursday. The two joined an earlier group of nine Filipino seamen of MV Spirit rescued in the Niger...
Tags: Nigerian, Department of Foreign Affairs, Philippine Embassy, Esteban Conejos Jr.
No Filipino is affected in the latest quarantine in Hong Kong following the second confirmed case of Influenza A(H1N1) in the East Asian territory, the Department of Foreign Affairs said Thursday. The Hong Kong's Center for Health Protection, which announced...
Tags: Philippines, Department of Foreign Affairs, Philippine Ambassador, DFA, Metro Manila, Philippine Embassy, Migrante International, Manila Bay