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(Eagle News) — Over 300 Filipinos were repatriated from Saudi Arabia, the Department of Foreign Affairs said. According to the DFA, the 347 Filipinos were repatriated from Dammam and Riyadh, as several establishments closed down there amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The DFA said of the total number, 16 were pregnant women, nine were minors, including five babies. There was also one male stretcher case, and one recovering stroke victim. The group arrived on Monday on […]
WASHINGTON DC (EAGLE NEWS) — An Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) gives an update and an OFW perspective to Eagle News International, Washington, D.C. about the lockdown in Saudi Arabia.
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte met with the family of the Overseas Filipino Worker who has been detained for several years in Bahrain for killing a Pakistani national, the Palace said on Friday, Jan. 24. In a statement, the Palace said the President met the family of Roderick Aguinaldo at the Villamor Air Base in Pasay City on Thursday, Jan. 23. Members of the family of Aguinaldo, who has been in detention for three […]
(Eagle News)–No Filipino has been reported affected by the ongoing protests in Chile, the Department of Foreign Affairs said on Wednesday, Oct. 22. The DFA made the statement as it urged the 800 Overseas Filipino Workers there to exercise the necessary precautions in view of the declaration of a State of Emergency in Grand Santiago on October 19 due to the protests. The state of emergency, which would supposedly last for 15 days, has since […]
(Eagle News)–The employer of slain Overseas Filipino Worker Joanna Demafelis has been found guilty of her murder. The Department of Foreign Affairs Office of the Undersecretary for Migrant Workers said Syrian national Mouna Ali Hassoun was convicted by the Syrian District Criminal Court. Hassoun’s Lebanese husband, Nader Essam Assaf, has also been charged with murder in Lebanon, the DFA said. “DFA will continue to provide legal assistance to the family until justice is served,” it […]
(Eagle News) — All 17 Filipino seafarers who were rescued from a burning ship off Nova Scotia have arrived safely in Halifax, the Philippine Embassy in Canada reported. In a Facebook post, Halifax vice consul Elizabeth Eustaquio-Domondon said the seafarers were “in high spirits” and were being assisted by their fleet manager in their return to the Philippines. She said members of the Filipino community have also met with the seafarers and provided them with food and […]
(Eagle News)–The body of a Filipina was found floating in a river in Sabah recently, the Department of Foreign Affairs said on Saturday, Dec. 8. In a statement, the DFA said authorities were looking at the possibility the case of Madelyn Bernardo Asuncion, who was discovered by a plantation worker in Pengalan River in Melalap on Nov. 28, was a homicide. The DFA said the embassy in Malaysia is waiting for the official report of the incident […]
(Eagle News) — An Overseas Filipino Worker died after she allegedly fell from a building in the United Arab Emirates last week, the Department of Foreign Affairs said. Based on a report from Consul General Paul Raymond Cortes of the Philippine Consulate General in Dubai, the Filipina, who was not identified, was believed to have fallen from the third floor of a building in Ajman on Nov. 23. She was declared dead on arrival at the […]
(Eagle News) — A group has accused Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III of refusing to help an Overseas Filipino Worker and of corruption. But Bello, in an interview over dzbb, dismissed the allegations of Alie Dizon, secretary general of Kilusang Pagbabago National Movement for Change, who said he received P1.5 million from a recruitment agency, and refused to help one “Mercy,” who was deployed abroad through that agency but was made to return home following a […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday, June 3, issued an apology to Kuwait for the “harsh language” he said he used at the height of the strained relations between the two countries. “That was a result of an emotional outburst, but I’d like to apologize now. I’m sorry for the language that I was using..,” he said in a speech before Filipinos in South Korea. According to the President, he was “very satisfied […]
(Eagle News)–The remains of the Overseas Filipino Worker found in a septic tank in South Korea have arrived in the country. The plane carrying Michael Angelo Claveria’s remains arrived at 9:30 a.m. at the Iloilo International Airport, almost two months after they were found. Authorities have yet to arrest the suspect in the killing, although they have zeroed in on only one from the four people they were initially monitoring. The suspect, who has not […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte said he was open to lifting the ban on the deployment of Overseas Filipino Workers to Kuwait. In a speech in Marawi, a transcript of which was sent to reporters on Friday, May 11, Duterte said this was if a pact ensuring the protection of Filipino workers there is signed between the two countries. He said the agreement should ensure that all OFWs would have one day-off, seven hours of sleep […]
