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Teenage helper charged for Singaporean’s slay

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The Quezon City Police District has charged an 18-year-old househelp for allegedly killing and robbing his Singaporean employer, who was found hacked to death in his house last month.

Posted: June 5th, 2013 in Latest Global Nation Stories | Read More »

DOLE chief allays fears over Singapore foreign worker policy

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Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz. INQUIRER FILE PHOTO

Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz on Wednesday allayed fears that Filipino workers would no longer be welcome in Singapore after the city-state imposed limits on foreign workers.

Posted: April 17th, 2013 in Latest Global Nation Stories | Read More »

Nurses warned vs offers of jobs in Singapore

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Philippine Overseas Employment Administration head Hans Leo Cacdac has warned against scammers luring local nurses to nonexistent jobs in Singapore.

Posted: February 26th, 2013 in Asia & Pacific,Features,Latest Global Nation Stories | Read More »

Suspect in human trafficking faces deportation from PH

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Geralyn Quezo, 17, (R) looks on as she stands by a fellow victim of human trafficking at the Visayan Forum Foundation's halfway house in Manila, 09 July 2007. AFP FILE PHOTO

The Bureau of Immigration has started deportation proceedings against a foreigner suspected of having ties with a human trafficking syndicate that provides fake Philippine passports to Chinese nationals travelling in the country.

Posted: December 18th, 2012 in Latest Global Nation Stories | Read More »

Singaporeans, too, angered by dolphin’s death

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Not only animal welfare advocates but the public in Singapore are outraged over the death last week of a dolphin in transit to the city-state from the Philippines despite pending court motions.

Posted: November 27th, 2012 in Features,Headlines,Philippines | Read More »

Singapore gets dolphins after tussle with activists

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A first batch of dolphins has arrived at a new oceanarium in Singapore after activists failed to have the animals’ transfer from the Philippines blocked, officials said Tuesday.

Posted: November 21st, 2012 in Latest Global Nation Stories | Read More »

Singapore keen on expanding investments in Philippines—DFA

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Singapore, one of Asia’s most robust economies, is taking notice of the Philippines’ recent economic gains and is looking to expand its investments in the Philippines, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs.

Posted: October 19th, 2012 in Latest Global Nation Stories | Read More »

Philippine court allows export of dolphins to Singapore

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The Philippine government said Thursday it has approved the export of 25 show dolphins to Singapore after a ban on their transport to a giant casino chain was lifted.

Posted: October 18th, 2012 in Latest Global Nation Stories | Read More »

QC court stops shipment of dolphins to Singapore

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A Quezon City court on Friday barred the Department of Agriculture (DA) and the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) from reexporting to Singapore 25 captive dolphins held at Ocean Adventure Park in Subic, Zambales.

Posted: October 14th, 2012 in Latest Global Nation Stories | Read More »

Court stops re-exporting of dolphins to Singapore

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The Quezon City Regional Trial Court stopped the re-exportation of 25 dolphins to Singapore.

Posted: October 12th, 2012 in Features,Latest Global Nation Stories,Philippines | Read More »

BoC files raps vs 7 alleged drug mules

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The Bureau of Customs on Thursday filed charges in the Department of Justice against seven suspected foreign drug carriers who had been arrested trying to bring into the country shabu worth millions of pesos.

Posted: August 24th, 2012 in Latest Global Nation Stories | Read More »

Singapore graduate students have more fun in Bicol town

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PLANTING RICE IS FUN IN ALBAY  Who said planting rice is never fun? These graduate students from the National University of Singapore do not think so as they learn how to plant rice during a visit to Libon, Albay, this month. Among the graduate students is the Nigerian Ambassador to Japan Emmanuel Oseimiegha Otiootio (at left). JAMES JOHN P. DYCOCO/CONTRIBUTOR

Libon, a small but rich agricultural town in the third district of Albay province, has the potential to become a rural tourism hub in the Bicol region.

Posted: June 27th, 2012 in Featured Gallery,Latest Global Nation Stories,Photos & Videos | Read More »

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  1. Sex in PH embassies
  2. Beijing warns PH on talks with Taipei
  3. US Secretary of the Navy meets with PH defense, military officials
  4. US 7-11 stores rapped for exploiting Filipinos
  5. Filipina cries rape on cruise ship
  6. China Sea row discussed in US officials’ call on DND
  7. Defend Philippine independence against China invasion threat
  8. US convenience stores exploited immigrants from PH, Pakistan
  9. BI to launch 6-month tourist visa next week
  10. Japan now issuing multiple-entry visas to Filipinos
  1. Only 5 in PH make list of Asia’s top universities
  2. Filipina cries rape on cruise ship
  3. NBI: Philippine coast guards liable
  4. US immigration office halts Filipina’s deportation after public outcry
  5. Tales from the deep: Fil-Am steers US submarine home
  6. Japan now issuing multiple-entry visas to Filipinos
  7. China: A superpower with no moral principles?
  8. Expert says Philippines can’t rely on US vs China
  9. DFA thanks US senators for draft resolution condemning China’s territorial claims
  10. Protest tries to stop deportation of Pinay wife of U.S. soldier
  1. Santiago: Harassment of Filipinos in Taiwan may warrant MECO abolition
  2. Only 5 in PH make list of Asia’s top universities
  3. Aquino bares AFP buildup vs ‘bullies in our backyard’
  4. ‘PH coast guards laughed while firing’
  5. Filipina cries rape on cruise ship
  6. To those who say Filipinos are stupid
  7. PCG: Video doesn’t show coast guards laughing
  8. NBI: Philippine coast guards liable
  9. Blast probe in Taguig City focuses on condo tenant
  10. PH tells China: Don’t tell us what to do within our territory

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