The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Tuesday reminded Filipino migrant workers in Saudi Arabia to make sure their work and residence documents were in order after the kingdom, one of the largest employers of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), launched a crackdown against illegal aliens.
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 Philippines has again appealed to Saudi Arabia to extend the deadline for the payment of blood money by jailed overseas Filipino worker (OFW) Joselito Zapanta so he could escape the death penalty, Vice President Jejomar Binay said on Monday.
The Philippine government is exerting all efforts to push back the deadline for the blood money payment of overseas Filipino worker Joselito Zapanta, which ends Tuesday, March 12, Vice President Jejomar Binay said on Monday.
The Arab Gulf Program for Development (Agfund), a nonprofit Arab region development organization based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, is holding a three-day conference in Manila, which will be highlighted by the awarding of the Agfund International Prize.
An overseas Filipino worker suffering from cancer died on a flight from Saudi Arabia that landed in Manila Saturday afternoon, according to authorities at Ninoy Aquino International Airport.
An overseas Filipino worker in the final stages of cancer died on his flight from Saudi Arabia Saturday afternoon, authorities at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport said.
Overseas Filipino worker Rodelio “Dondon” Lanuza is profuse with gratitude after being spared from the death row through the mercy of the king of Saudi Arabia.
Vice President Jejomar Binay and Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario on Friday expressed the Philippine government’s gratitude to Saudi King Abdullah for donating the P24.9-million balance for the “blood money” needed for the release of Filipino death convict Rodelio “Dondon” Lanuza.
An overseas Filipino worker who has languished on death row in Saudi Arabia for more than a decade has been saved from execution with the Saudi government’s shouldering nearly P25 million in blood money for his victim’s family, the kingdom’s embassy in Manila said Thursday.
After spending more than 11 years in jail, an overseas Filipino worker (OFW) on death row in Saudi Arabia will soon be a free man after the Saudi government decided to shoulder the unpaid balance of the blood money asked by the family he offended.
Can the P1.6 million given by Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile to each of the 18 senators and the P500,000 distributed by Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. to each of the more than 200 lawmakers last Christmas be spent on purposes other than office operations?
