Cambodian tourist drowns in Ifugao falls
By Vincent Cabreza
A Cambodian student drowned in Tapia Falls near the Batad rice terraces here on Sunday, a police official said.
A Cambodian student drowned in Tapia Falls near the Batad rice terraces here on Sunday, a police official said.
The three divers, who failed to surface eight hours after they went down in the waters off Donsol town in Sorsogon, were found alive in Masbate Sunday evening, the police said on Monday.
An Italian national lost her laptop, cell phones, camera and P51,000 in cash in a Makati City restaurant on Monday night.
Three Taiwanese tourists, including a two-year-old girl, drowned on Wednesday afternoon when a motor boat carrying 30 tourists capsized near Boracay Island, Aklan, according to initial police reports.
Immigration Commissioner Ricardo David Jr. has warned foreign visitors against “fixers” who fake the agency’s arrival and departure visa extension stamps after two departing Chinese women with false immigration stamps on their passports were arrested at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport.
An Australian tourist allegedly lost his mobile phone to a woman named “Angel” and then suffered a double whammy when he thought he could have it back after paying P6,000 “ransom’’ to her accomplice in Manila on Wednesday.
If not for the alertness of a Korean national, the men who robbed her of over P10,000 in cash and other valuables would have gotten away with their crime.
Two foreigners and a Filipino were kidnapped in Panglima Sugala town in Tawi-Tawi on Wednesday noon, police said.
A Japanese tourist was robbed of P80,000 in cash late Monday afternoon after two armed men forced him into a van outside a Manila mall and took him for a ride before abandoning him in Pasay City.
