MANILA, Philippines—Six more Filipinos trapped in the violence-racked Libyan city of Misurata arrived in Manila on Thursday night, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Friday. The DFA also said seven Filipino nurses earlier reported missing in Libya have been accounted for, with five of them returning home with other Filipinos from the strife-torn north [...]
MANILA, Philippines—The Philippine and Saudi Arabian governments are expected to sign on Friday an agreement that would lead to the lifting of the Middle Eastern kingdom’s deployment ban on Filipino maids, a recruitment industry consultant said Thursday. Emmanuel Geslani said the two parties were set to sign a memorandum of agreement (MOA) following talks held [...]
MANILA, Philippines—Seven of 10 Filipinos applying for a US visa invariably obtain approval, the United States Embassy said on Wednesday, refuting the common perception that most candidates inevitably meet with rejection. The Philippines has a 70-percent visa approval rate, falling under the “medium” category of countries given visas to the US, said Consul General Michael [...]
MANILA, Philippines—Financial cooperative Bay Federal Credit Union is offering up to $5,000 for information that will help FBI agents and police arrest the unidentified robbers who pulled off a heist in Watsonville, California Friday last week. FBI agents and Watsonville police detectives said that the robbers, armed with semi-automatic guns, entered the bank at 1:15 [...]
COTABATO CITY, Philippines—Two Muslim women are among the 15 students from conflict-affected areas of Mindanao getting financial support from the USAID’s Growth with Equity in Mindanao (GEM) Program. Once they pass the licensure examination, the two, Musarapa Insiang and Haiza Pigkaulan, will be among the first Mindanao Muslim women mining engineers in the Philippines. Both [...]
MANILA, Philippines—The Philippine Consulate General in San Francisco advised qualified Filipino voters abroad to comply with the “The Voters Registration Act of 1996” and file their applications for registration or certification for the May 2013 elections. Under Republic Act No. 9189, or the Overseas Absentee Voting Act of 2003, “all citizens of the Philippines abroad, [...]
MANILA, Philippines—The Bureau of Immigration on Thursday deported two Americans who were both fugitives from justice in the United States. Immigration Commissioner Ricardo David Jr. identified the two as Timothy Allen Avramidis and Scott Matthews Schwanke. “The fugitives were expelled pursuant to deportation orders issued against them by the BI board of commissioners and at [...]
MANILA, Philippines—The six Filipinos trapped for 23 days in Misrata, Libya and rescued in Zitlin have arrived in Manila, the Department of Foreign Affairs said Thursday. With them are three other Filipinos earlier brought out of Tripoli, the DFA said in a statement. Director Ricardo Endaya, executive director of the DFA Office of the Undersecretary [...]
MANILA, Philippines—Financial cooperative Bay Federal Credit Union is offering up to $5,000 for information that will help FBI agents and police arrest the unidentified robbers who pulled off a heist in Watsonville, California Friday last week. FBI agents and Watsonville police detectives said that the robbers, armed with semi-automatic guns, entered the bank at 1:15 [...]
MANILA, Philippines—Home improvement giant Lowe’s will have its grand opening in Iwilei, Hawaii Thursday. Lowe’s Iwilei has 117,000 square feet of retail sales space, with an adjacent garden center, stocking 40,000 different items to help customers build, improve and beautify their homes, store manager Craig Anderson said. A store of this size represents an average [...]
MANILA, Philippines—President Benigno Aquino III expressed on Thursday his best wishes to the British Prince William and his fiancée Kate Middleton on the eve of their much anticipated wedding set for Friday (April 29). In expressing his best wishes to the royal couple through his spokesman Edwin Lacierda, Aquino said he wished the media would [...]
ILIGAN CITY, Philippines—Malaysia has appointed a new facilitator in peace negotiations between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. According to a news release from the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP), Malaysian diplomat Tenkgu Dato AB Ghafar Tengku Mohamed assumed the function at the start of the 21st [...]
