The Philippines’ de facto ambassador to Taiwan has advised thousands of Filipino workers there to eat at home and avoid the streets while emotions run high on the island over the killing of a Taiwanese fisherman by Filipino coast guards last week.
Filipinos have been refused service in restaurants and supermarkets, as tensions continue to rise over the killing of a Taiwanese fisherman by the Philippine Coast Guard in the Balintang Channel last week, said Amadito Perez Jr., chair of the Manila Economic and Cultural Office (Meco).
When the Burmese cargo vessel, the MV Harita Bauxite, began sinking after 10 p.m. on Saturday, the captain, Win Kyu, blew a whistle and ordered the crew to abandon ship.
Call it the best-kept secret of this western agricultural town: A virtually unexplored 4-kilometer-long cave with underground waterfalls and pools, white stone terraces and unique formations of stalactites and stalagmites.
Even as a young girl, Maria Delilah Turzar, 40, had always been fascinated by the framed, faded magazine article displayed on the wall of her grandmother’s house here.
Members of the Philippine-Minnesotan Medical Association (PMMA) came to Western Pangasinan District Hospital for a five-day medical and surgical mission recently.
Evangeline Vallejos is happily incredulous that she won her case for permanent residency in Hong Kong, for which she had been fighting for three years.
Ten years after the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, Maureen Roy-Yson an still not bear going back to Ground Zero where memories of the fateful day keep flashing back “like a movie in my mind.”
