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Share Vice President Jejomar Binay arrived home Saturday night following his 36-hour visit to China that bought time and somehow gave hope to three Filipinos facing execution there. The vice president’s appeal to Chinese officials in Beijing, with its supreme court chief justice, was seen as instrumental to China’s decision to [Continue reading]
Share Vicky Manalo Draves, Filipino-American, and the first woman to win a gold medal in springboard and platform diving, passed away on April 11 Share [Continue reading]
Share A Malaysian newspaper reported that six Filipino workers died after inhaling carbon monoxide while they were cleaning a water tank in Malaysia. Department of Foreign Affairs is still confirming the details of the incident. In the newspaper, the incident happened at the Kampung Lawa Gadong water treatment plant in the southwest Beaufort [Continue reading]
Share Five Filipino boxers will slug it out on Valentine’s day at Las Vegas, Nevada for the title "Pinoy Power 3". Gerry Peñalosa’s and Bernabe Concepcion’s camp are confident to win the championship. Share [Continue reading]
Share Since Saturday, more than 200 OFWs in Saudi Arabia have stopped working, in protest of the suspected unfair labor practices of their employers. The group of engineers, supervisors and construction workers working for Al Arab Contracting Company Ltd., have decide to stop working when their company paid no heed to their complaints. On [Continue reading]
Share Health Secretary Esperanza Cabral was pleased after learning that the 21-member Philippine medical team in Haiti is getting generous support from the Filipino community. She said that they will be deploying new team of Filipino volunteers that will relieve those who are giving medical aid to the victims of the Haiti quake, but they [Continue reading]
Share 70 coming home According to the report of Philippine Ambassador MacArthur Corsino to Havana, who is also the head of the Philippine Recovery-Relief-Repatriation Task Force in Haiti, they are now finalizing plans for the return of about 70 Filipinos caught in Haiti earthquake back to Philippines. 70 out of more than 210 Filipinos [Continue reading]
