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(Eagle News) –The Bureau of Immigration has intercepted almost 500 illegal recruitment victims since January. According to the bureau, a total of 8,413 passengers were also not allowed to leave the Philippines for not having the proper documentation. The bureau made the statement as it hailed the rescue of what it said was another illegal recruitment victim and the arrest of a man it said was posing as an accredited liaison officer in Pasig City. […]
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AFP) — Ivory Coast officials on Tuesday burnt three tonnes of scales of the pangolin, the most trafficked mammal on Earth. The scales were seized in raids in 2017 and 2018, following which some 20 people were arrested. Beijing announced a total ban on the sale and consumption of the pangolin after the novel coronavirus outbreak. The scaly mammal — listed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (ICUN) as threatened […]
(Eagle News) — Thirty-four women who were suspected of being illegally recruited to work in Saudi Arabia were rescued at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport on Nov. 30. Bureau of Immigration port operations chief Grifton Medina said in a statement on Thursday, Dec. 5, that the women were intercepted after they presented travel documents with “glaring discrepancies and irregularities.” He said immigration authorities had also already encountered two of them as they had earlier been […]
