MANILA, Philippines – A Philippine mission has arrived in New Zealand to check reports that Filipinos were buried under a building that collapsed during this week’s killer quake, the government said Thursday. “There are reports coming from relatives here which indicates that there may be Filipinos in the rubble of the CTV (Canterbury Television) building,” [...]
MANILA, Philippines—President Benigno Aquino III Wednesday insisted his government had no need to apologize to Taiwan over the deportation of 14 Taiwanese nationals to China and said that should Taipei make good on its threat to stop hiring Filipinos, the workers could always be deployed to other countries. The President said this before meeting with [...]
WASHINGTON—American nationals and other foreigners evacuating Libya have boarded a US-chartered ferry in Tripoli but their departure has been delayed by high seas, officials said Wednesday. Countries and companies are scrambling to pull foreign citizens out of the fractured north African country amid widespread unrest as the increasingly isolated Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi clings to [...]
CHRISTCHURCH – New Zealand police Wednesday abandoned hope of finding survivors in a six-storey building which collapsed after a major earthquake, adding foreign students were likely among the dead. “This particular site, CTV site, had a number of overseas students in it and my heart goes out to those families that are away knowing that [...]
HONG KONG — (UPDATE) Wan Chai District Court No. 4 Judge Joseph Yau agreed Wednesday that the drugs Representative Ronald Singson brought to Hong Kong last year were for his own personal consumption. Noting that the Filipino lawmaker was cocaine dependent at the time of his arrest, the judge pointed out that the quantity of [...]
MANILA, Philippines—The Philippine Embassy in Riyadh has denied it forced a Filipina to amicably settle a rape charge she filed against her manager in the oil-rich kingdom. Instead, the embassy “vigourously assisted” Sofia (not her real name), who has been employed in a manpower supplier company in Saudi, the Department of Foreign Affairs said in [...]
MANILA, Philippines – Filipinos in Libya and in three other countries facing unrest should steer clear of the protest actions, Overseas Workers Welfare Administration Carmelita Dimzon reiterated Tuesday. Dimzon described the situation in Libya, saying “communication has been cut off, the welfare officer could not give accurate information of the situation, and the Internet service [...]
NESBRU, Norway—Negotiators for the Philippines government and communist rebels agreed Monday on a road map for continued peace talks aimed at resolving one of Asia’s longest-running conflicts by June 2012. Ending the first round of long-stalled peace negotiations in Norway, the two sides agreed to meet again in April and every two months after that. [...]
