US spent $507M in military aid to Philippines
By: Jerry E. EsplanadaThe United States provided over $507 million (about P21.7 billion) in military assistance to the Philippines from 2001 to 2010, US Ambassador Harry Thomas Jr. has disclosed.
The United States provided over $507 million (about P21.7 billion) in military assistance to the Philippines from 2001 to 2010, US Ambassador Harry Thomas Jr. has disclosed.
On a night when it snowed in October for only the third time in 142 years in Manhattan, Carnegie Hall glittered as hundreds huddled to honor and fete 2011’s best Filipino Americans in New York.
The Philippines welcomed one of the world’s symbolic “seven billionth” babies Monday, after she arrived to a celebratory cheer at a packed government-run hospital.
MANILA, Philippines—Too bad many of us in the Philippines missed “24 Hours of Reality,” a day-long live-streamed event highlighting the reality of climate change in 24 locations around the world. If you had tuned in to the live broadcast on the Internet on Sept. 14 and 15, you would have caught Filipino climate change activist [...]
MANILA, Philippines—A migrants rights group has urged the Philippine government to seek clarification from Saudi Arabia regarding a statement made by the kingdom’s labor minister that a cap would be placed on remittances sent home by foreign workers. Migrante-Middle East regional coordinator John Leonard Monterona over the weekend urged Manila to act after Saudi Labor [...]
On the 50th anniversary on Nov. 3 of its involvement in the Philippines, the US Agency for International Development (Usaid) announced that it was focusing assistance on rebellion-torn Mindanao. “Mindanao is still Usaid’s top priority because that’s where the need is greatest,” said Gloria D. Steele, the Filipino-American head of the agency in the Philippines, [...]
A Nepalese student of an aviation school in Metro Manila was killed while seven of his classmates were hurt when the vehicle they were riding in turned turtle along the Clark Freeport section of the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway (SCTEx) on Saturday.
“I understand China more than the Philippines.” That was the confession of Chito Sta. Romana, a 63-year-old Filipino Emmy-award winning journalist who returned home after 39 years in China.
President Obama’s campaign promise to push for immigration reform never came to fruition. Not only has immigration policy not changed, more than one million people were deported to their homeland in the last three years.
Nelson lived in Jeddah for 25 years. He considered himself very familiar with the laws and cultural norms in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
The Department of Foreign Affairs advised Filipinos planning to travel to Bangkok to reconsider their trips due to the flooding in the Thai capital and elsewhere in the country.
An independent civil society panel has found Senator Miriam Santiago “qualified” to be a judge on International Criminal Court in the Hague, the Department of Foreign Affairs said Saturday.
