The Philippine government has asked Saudi Arabia to go easy on some 1,000 undocumented Filipino workers stranded in Jeddah who are facing imminent arrest and deportation.
A leader of the Agta tribe in the Sierra Madres in northern Quezon on Monday said the construction of a bridge that would link the province to Aurora had no permit from his community.
The militant fisherman’s alliance Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) on Saturday assailed the recommendation of the National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (NDRRMC) to impose a fishing ban on a “600-kilometers-by-400-kilometers exclusion zone” on Oct. 26 when South Korea launches a rocket to send a satellite into space.
Representatives from the government and communist-led National Democratic Front of the Philippines held a two-day meeting in Oslo, Norway to pave the way for the resumption of formal peace negotiation to end the more than four decades of armed conflict in the country.
A leftist fisherfolk alliance has urged Congress to investigate an administration plan to build a pier on a disputed island in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea).
