Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario has urged consular officers at the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to “strive harder” in providing services to the public even as he noted improvements in the agency’s passport processing and authentication systems.
The Philippines has asserted its right to have access to Philippine citizens being held by Malaysian authorities in Sabah as government had no confirmed information of their location and condition, relying only on Malaysian news reports on the arrests.
The Philippines was voted the “Most Popular Destination” by the Guangzhou Information Times and the Guangzhou International Tourism Fair in separate ceremonies held recently in Guangzhou, China, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said on Friday.
The Philippines said Thursday it would keep its contingent of United Nations peacekeepers in the Golan Heights, after Syrian rebels held 21 of them hostage for three days last week.
While recent reports of human rights violations in Sabah have made headlines, the Department of Foreign Affairs said Tuesday every information will have to be validated before authorities can act on it.
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Tuesday called for more help to raise the blood money needed for Joselito Zapanta, an overseas Filipino worker in Saudi Arabia, as President Benigno Aquino III has sent a letter asking for an extension of the deadline.
The Philippine government on Sunday welcomed the release of its 21 UN peacekeepers after they were freed by Syrian rebels and crossed to Jordan, where officials waited to receive them.
Sixty-one Filipinos from Syria are set to return to the Philippines Saturday in light of the escalating tensions in the Arab state, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) announced Friday.
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has sent another note verbale to the Malaysian Embassy Friday morning “strongly requesting” for the Filipino diplomatic team in Sabah to be given full access to the apprehended members of the Sulu “royal army.”
Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario is set to formally apologize to the heirs of the sultanate of Sulu for failing to attend to a letter the Kiram family had sent the government in 2010 to seek the revival of the country’s dormant claim to Sabah and a role in peace talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Wednesday shrugged off as an “isolated case” the reported ban on Filipinos by a Beijing restaurant.
Malaysian security forces have started their crackdown on the Filipino armed group that has occupied a part of Sabah, Malaysia, by arresting late Monday the nephew of Sultan Jamalul Kiram III in Sabah.
