A six-story building that collapsed and killed 115 people, including 11 Filipinos, during last year’s New Zealand earthquake did not meet construction standards, according to a government report released Thursday.
Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert Del Rosario has commended the Filipino crewmembers of doomed Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia for their “competence, professionalism and humanity, even under extreme pressure.”
No less than Filipino crew members of the ill-starred Costa Concordia said the cruise liner’s captain abandoned the ship as it foundered over rocky shallow waters off the Italian island of Giglio last Friday night.
Hopes began to fade for 29 people still unaccounted for from the wreck of a luxury liner off the coast of Italy on Tuesday as a judge questioned the captain over his role in the disaster.
President Benigno Aquino III granted on December 21 the conditional pardon to British national William Robert Burton who was convicted of drug-related charges.
Officers of a ship that ploughed into a New Zealand reef causing the country’s worst maritime pollution disaster faced fresh charges on Wednesday for altering documents after the grounding.
Despite the European Union’s economic woes and high unemployment, the bloc will need to attract more migrants in the coming years to fill the jobs of the future, a senior official said Friday.
For promoting environmental education among children with special needs, a Filipino student won the Bayer Young Environmental Leader Award Thursday night here (early Friday in Manila) along with three other young environmentalists from around the world.
Like many young Londoners, 25-year-old Rueben Taylor shares a house in a neighborhood that’s part scruffy, part smart. Unlike many others, she doesn’t pay a penny in rent — and that puts her at the center of an escalating battle pitting the rights of property owners against the needs of tenants squeezed out of Britain’s shrinking stock of affordable homes.
A Filipino from this Oriental Mindoro city was named Nurse of the Year during the 2011 Star Awards of the Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals (BSUH).
Sin no more by not going TNT. In other words, please come home. An official of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) on Tuesday appealed to Filipino delegates who attended the recent World Youth Day in Madrid, Spain, and who are still in Europe to make sure they return home and not turn [...]
The United Kingdom’s ambassador to the Philippines, Stephen Lillie, on Friday expressed his “shock and regret” at the injuries and damages to property suffered by three Filipinos during the riots that erupted in different parts England this week. “We are appalled by the scenes that have unfolded in our communities, and I am especially shocked [...]
