DFA: No Filipinos hurt in Boston Marathon blast
By Karen Boncocan
So far, there have been no reports of Filipinos hurt in the deadly Boston Marathon explosion, Foreign Affairs spokesperson Assistant Secretary Raul Hernandez said on Monday.
So far, there have been no reports of Filipinos hurt in the deadly Boston Marathon explosion, Foreign Affairs spokesperson Assistant Secretary Raul Hernandez said on Monday.
Malaysian prosecutors have charged eight Filipino men with terrorism-related offenses following an armed siege in Borneo that killed 71 people.
A Nevada congressman will soon reintroduce a bill that would compensate Filipino veterans for services to the US during World War II. U.S. Rep. Joe Heck told Asian Journal that the bill aims to fast-track action from Congress. The move came in the heels of the recent death of 100-year-old Filipino veteran Silverio Cuaresma [...]
Rescuers gave up hope of finding any more survivors from a cargo ship that sank in the frigid North Sea off the Dutch coast, saying Thursday they are searching for the bodies of the seven crewmen still missing. That brings the presumed death toll to 11.
As Filipinos in the United States East Coast have started recovering from the devastation brought by superstorm “Sandy,” around 50,000 Filipinos living in the Midwest are bracing themselves for one of the worst storms to hit the US.
An official said Tuesday that an employee of Lebanon’s national airline MEA was fired after a passenger complained in a social media campaign that the worker humiliated travelers from the Philippines at the Beirut airport and told them over the loudspeaker, “Filipino people, stop talking.”
The European Union’s delegation to the Philippines on Wednesday said that a local humanitarian expert was assessing the damage to the country brought about by the heavy rains that hit Metro Manila and nearby provinces on Tuesday.
Every year, on the 12th of June at 10 in the morning, Philippine flag is raised at the balcony of the quaint City Hall of San Francisco.
US President Barack Obama recently cited the achievements of the more than 17.3 million Asian-Americans in all facets of American life, including 3.2 million Filipinos “whose talents and contributions strengthen our economy, protect our security and enliven our country every day.”
Filipinos are now the second largest Asian group in the United States, according to the latest census bureau report.
The Filipino captain and second officer of a ship that caused New Zealand’s biggest sea pollution disaster pleaded guilty to criminal charges Wednesday and could face lengthy jail terms, officials said.
Fourteen Filipino seafarers were among those held by armed men who hijacked a Cyprus-flagged and Norwegian-managed tanker the other day in Lomé, Togo, in West Africa.
