From about a thousand two months ago, less than 150 Filipinos remain camped outside the Philippine Embassy and a Philippine consular office in Saudi Arabia, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA).
A tourist attraction in Brunei’s Diplomatic Enclave is the two-storey Philippine Embassy Chancery with live plants growing on its walls. The $2.5-million chancery stands on a 1.1744-hectare lot behind Brunei’s Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports building.
The Philippine embassy has joined the Filipino-American community in questioning the use of deadly force against a Filipino-American woman who was fatally shot while handing out samples at a grocery store in Sterling, Virginia.
The grieving family of a Filipino worker who died in Bahrain has complained about the continued inaction of Philippine Embassy officials on its request for an investigation into her mysterious death.
Amid aggressive external threats to its sovereignty, the Philippines’ defense capabilities will get a boost with the arrival next month of its latest naval asset acquired from the United States.
While the Philippines has not given up its claim to Sabah, the Philippine Embassy in Kuala Lumpur has asked Filipino barter traders to comply with fresh Malaysian regulations “notably requiring Filipinos and other foreigners” to present passports or seaman’s books if they wish to do business in the disputed state and the neighboring territory of Labuan.
The Filipino captain and second officer of a cargo ship that ran aground off New Zealand in 2011 have been expelled from the South Pacific country after serving half of their prison terms.
Philippine officials in Riyadh on Wednesday clarified that overseas Filipino worker Rodelio “Dondon” Lanuza, who has been languishing for 11 years on death row in Saudi Arabia, is not yet spared from the death penalty.
Palau President Johnson Toribiong has asked President Benigno Aquino to reconsider a decision to shut down the Philippine Embassy in the Pacific island nation.
The Philippine Embassy in London recently hosted the first large gathering of top Filipino academics and scholars based in the United Kingdom. Entitled “Pinoy At Its Best – An Afternoon with Authors, Artists and Academics”, the event brought together Filipino academics, researchers and scholars from top universities around the United Kingdom. It was organized by [...]
The Philippine Embassy in Tripoli said on Sunday it would try again to gather together Filipino migrant workers in the Libyan capital and put them on a Benghazi-bound boat chartered by the International Organization for Migration (IOM). In a report to the Department of Foreign Affairs in Manila, the embassy said Foreign Undersecretary Rafael Seguis [...]
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) and the Philippine Embassy in Kuala Lumpur have taken up the cudgels for a Filipino labor leader being held by police in Malaysia for supposedly joining a June 25 prodemocracy rally in that country. CHR Chair Loretta Ann Rosales asked the Malaysian government to allow Romy Castillo, chair of [...]
