The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) announced Friday that its passport offices in Metro Manila would be closed in observance of the following regular holidays and special non-working holidays in 2013:
The Department of Foreign Affars (DFA) on Friday announced that its passport offices would be closed on the following holidays:
LOS ANGELES—During the three days at the height of the arson spree, Fil-Am couple Valorie and Jeff, weren’t sure exactly what to do to celebrate the New Year. Should they stay home and watch their belongings? Or go out and celebrate the New Year, while a serial arsonist was on the loose and targeting random [...]
It’s a truly merry Christmas for three returning overseas Filipino workers.
Warm smiles are encouraged. But welcoming visitors with “Merry Christmas” greetings are not.
MT. SAMAT, Bataan, Philippines—Almost 70 years after Filipinos and Americans surrendered to the Japanese in Bataan and were made to march either to their deaths or to a concentration camp in Tarlac, the Japanese ambassador cited Filipinos for their “noble spirit of reconciliation and sense of fairness.” Japanese Ambassador Makoto Katsura made the remark during [...]
MT. SAMAT, Bataan, Philippines—President Benigno Aquino III on Saturday declared the anomaly of “ghost pensioners” among the country’s war veterans was now a thing of the past. In his speech on the observance of Araw ng Kagitingan on Mt. Samat, Mr. Aquino said the systems put in place by the Philippine Veterans’ Affairs Office since [...]
