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(Eagle News) — The Bureau of Immigration on Wednesday said that Overseas Filipino Workers in Kuwait who are only currently on vacation in the Philippines can leave and return to their jobs. BI Commissioner Jaime Morente made the announcement after the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) issued a directive exempting “Balik Manggagawa” passengers from the total deployment ban of Filipino workers to the Middle Eastern country. According to Morente, he has instructed Marc Red Mariñas, BI […]
(Eagle News) – Bubusisiin na sa Kamara ang umano’y kakapusan ng bigas ng National Food Authority (NFA) sa merkado at kakaunting buffer stock. Noong Pebrero, inihain ni House Committee on Agriculture Chairman Jose Panganiban, Jr. ang resolusyon para imbestigahan ang ulat na umamin ang NFA na mayroon itong mahigit sa 65,000 metriko toneladang bigas na buffer stock na tatagal na lamang ng dalawang araw. Isinaad ni Panganiban sa resolusyon na ang mandato ng NFA ay […]
Agriculture secretary says the move was to ensure PHL rice sufficiency in the long run (Eagle News) — Agriculture Secretary Manny Piñol is slated to visit Papua New Guinea next month to “finalize an arrangement” that will allow Filipino farmers to plant rice there. In a press conference on Wednesday, Piñol said President Rodrigo Duterte has given him the go-signal to make the trip that the agriculture secretary said would ensure the country’s rice sufficiency […]
Says Comelec never informed any candidate of presence of such (Eagle News) — The camp of former Senator Bongbong Marcos slammed the camp of Vice President Leni Robredo for its claims the “mysterious” squares on their ballot images were a new “feature,” saying the Commission on Elections never informed any candidate of the presence of such. “I dare him now to produce any briefing made by the Comelec on the presence of the squares because […]
Tropical depression expected to exit PAR on Friday morning (Eagle News) — Tropical Depression “Basyang” continues to move toward southern Palawan and may make landfall there tonight, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said. PAGASA said that as of 7 a.m., the center of “Basyang” was found 255 kilometers south of Cuyo, Palawan or 310 kilometers west southwest of Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental. The tropical depression is packing maximum sustained winds of 45 […]
KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait — Kuwait’s foreign minister on Tuesday condemned what he called an “escalation” by Manila after the Philippines expanded a ban on its nationals working in Kuwait. Manila on Monday officially announced a “total ban” on new employment in Kuwait, including Filipinos who had already obtained employment permits but had not yet left for the Gulf country. The measure came after President Rodrigo Duterte angrily lashed out at Kuwait over reports of Filipino […]
(Eagle News) — China has “successfully named” five undersea features at the Philippine Rise region. This is according to Jay Batongbacal, an associate professor at the University of the Philippines College of Law and director of the University of the Philippines Institute for Maritime Affairs and Law of the Sea. According to Batongbacal, the features were the “Jinghao and Tianbao Seamounts located some 70 nautical miles east of Cagayan; the Haidonquing Seamount further east at 190 nautical […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China has started building the world’s largest test site for unmanned ships — a technology with both civilian and military applications — off a port in the disputed South China Sea, state media said Tuesday. The test area is being constructed off the southern port city of Zhuhai bordering Macau, the state Xinhua news agency said. China asserts sovereignty over almost all the South China Sea despite competing partial claims from […]
Four people were killed in the southern part of the country early Tuesday as “Basyang” unleashed heavy rain and triggered deadly landslides, police said. The storm slammed the east coast of Mindanao Tuesday with gusts of 75 kilometers (47 miles) an hour. The heavy rain triggered landslides that hit mountain villages outside the mining town of Carrascal — 760 kilometers south of the capital Manila — killing four people, municipal police chief James Alendogao told […]
Duterte also thanks Gokongwei family for offer to deploy aircraft for distressed Filipino workers (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte appeared to have reconciled with Lucio Tan on Tuesday night, after the business tycoon who was once publicly slammed by the chief executive for his airline’s then-unpaid debts offered one of his planes for use by Overseas Filipino Workers being repatriated from Kuwait. “(Tan) called yesterday offering another plane..Nabayaran mo naman na taxes mo, at […]
(Eagle News) – The United States Ambassador to the Philippines Sung Kim visited Iglesia Ni Cristo (INC) Church of Christ Executive Minister Brother Eduardo V. Manalo on Monday, February 12, 2018. The US Ambassador arrived at the INC Central Office before 8 in the morning. Ambassador Kim’s visit to the INC Central Office came about as the Church is preparing celebrations of its 50th anniversary in the West. The first overseas congregation of the […]
(Eagle News) — “Basyang” has slightly weakened as it continues to traverse Bohol Sea, the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said. As of 4 p.m., PAGASA said the tropical depression–with its center located 25 kilometers southeast of Tagbilaran in Bohol–was packing maximum sustained winds of 45 kilometers per hour near the center and gustiness of up to 65 kph. It is forecast to move west at 27 kilometers per hour. Signal Number one […]
