The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) arrested a female member of the African Drug Syndicate (ADS) and a Filipina recruiter holding P24 million worth of methamphetamine hydrochloride (shabu) on Wednesday, undersecretary Jose Gutierrez Jr. said Thursday.
BEIJING—China is marking the 90th birthday of the Communist Party with its typically over-the-top celebrations and an unusually rancorous debate about whether the government needs a major change in direction to sustain the country’s resurgence.
Israeli scholars have confirmed the authenticity of a 2,000-year-old burial box that appears to bear the name of a relative of the high priest Caiaphas mentioned in the New Testament, the Israel Antiquities Authority said Wednesday.
Taiwan on Thursday unveiled an upgraded version of its locally developed fighter jet in a bid to boost its air defenses against China after the US declined to sell it F16 warplanes.
President Benigno Aquino III plans to visit China amid fresh spats over the disputed Spratly Islands in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea).
The Philippines is to ask for clarification from Saudi Arabia after it announced it would stop granting work permits for Filipino domestic staff, President Benigno Aquino’s spokesman said Thursday.
Saudi Arabia announced Wednesday it would stop granting work permits to domestic workers from the Philippines and Indonesia, following hiring conditions imposed by the Asian countries.
Finally, the electronic passport operations at the Department of Foreign Affairs are back to normal.
China has said a series of recent naval drills are “routine” and unrelated to simmering tensions in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea) involving a range of nations with competing territorial claims.
The spokesman for Saudi Arabia’s Labor Ministry says the kingdom will no longer issue work permits for domestic workers from the Philippines and Indonesia after new hiring guidelines laid out by those nations.
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) is set to launch today (Thursday) “Frontlines of Diplomacy: Conversations with Philippine Ambassadors,” a book on contemporary Philippine foreign policy and diplomacy. Edited by Foreign Assistant Secretary for Legal Affairs J. Eduardo Malaya, the Anvil publication features interviews with 37 retired and current Philippine ambassadors and three diplomatic spouses. [...]
The Department of Labor and Employment on Wednesday allayed fears of overseas Filipino workers and their families about a new Saudi Arabia policy aimed at limiting the number of migrant laborers employed by private companies there. But though the new policy was “no cause for undue worry,” about 90,000 OFWs working in small establishments could [...]
