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PPIE na! Handa na ba kayo?
DUBAI: Filipinos across the UAE are excited about the much-awaited 7th edition of the Philippine Property and Investment Exhibition (PPIE) happening April 26 and 27 where major property developers from the Philippines will be huddled under one roof, rolling out best...
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LOOK: Palm Sunday 2019 mass schedules in the UAE
Catholic faithful around the UAE are expected to gather at the churches today, April 14 as they celebrate Palm Sunday that marks the beginning of the Holy Week and the last week of the Lenten season. Palm Sunday commemorates the arrival of Jesus in Jerusalem before...
Overseas absentee voting for Filipinos begins
DUBAI: Registered overseas Filipino voters start trooping to the Philippine Embassy and Consulate on April 13 as they cast their votes in the Philippines' midterm election where 12 Senate seats and one in the lower house are at stake. This as Ambassador Hjayceelyn...
‘Go out and vote’ — PH officials urge OFWs
DUBAI: It’s all systems go for the Philippine Embassy and Consulate as polling stations open at 8am on Saturday, April 13, in what will be the start of a 29-day electoral exercise of some 361,265 registered overseas Filipino voters in the UAE, who will be making their...
New policy on sponsoring relatives
DUBAI: The Filipino community in the UAE has welcomed the host government’s move to approve a measure requiring expats bringing their family members to the country to show proof of income instead of profession as has been the practice. Though an income bracket has yet...
PH lodges diplomatic protest over presense of 275 Chinese vessels near Pag-asa
Manila has filed a diplomatic protest against Beijing over the presence of hundreds of Chinese vessels in the waters surrounding Pag-asa Island in the disputed West Philippine Sea. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said that the diplomatic protest was filed by...
30 undocumented Dubai-bound Filipinos intercepted at NAIA
Thirty undocumented Dubai-bound Filipinos were not allowed by Immigration officials at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport to leave the country on Friday, March 29. The Bureau of Immigration (BI) said the workers, 18 women and 12 men, claimed that they would only...
POLO to stop issuing OECs to certain OFWs starting April 1
DUBAI: Starting April 1 this year, all overseas Filipinos workers (OFWs), who arrived in the UAE on visit visas and are going home on a break for the first time since getting a job, will have to get their Overseas Employment Certificates (OEC) from the Philippine...
DFA, Snowden thank Canada for accommodating Pinay ‘Snowden refugee’
Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. thanked the Canadian government for accepting the asylum request of a Filipina who helped Wikileaks founder Edward Snowden hide in Hong Kong. "Thank you Canada, we owe you big time,” Locsin said in a tweet in response to a...
DOTr set to publish bidding guidelines for Bulacan airport project
The Department of Transportation (DOTr) is eyeing to publish in April the guidelines for a Swiss challenge for the proposed Bulacan airport. A Swiss challenge is a type of bidding process required for unsolicited project proposals. DOTr Undersecretary for Aviation...
LOOK: Number of OFW voters up by 100% than 6 years ago
The number of registered Filipino voters overseas for the upcoming polls has increased by more than 100 percent than the figure six years ago, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA). It showed that 1,822,115 million overseas Filipinos have been...
OFWs required to pay at least P960 mandatory SSS contribution starting April
Starting April, all land-based OFWs are required to pay at least P960 a month to the Social Security System as part of their mandatory contribution to the state pension. SSS contribution became mandatory for OFWs when Republic Act No. 11199 or the Social Security Act...
Boeing 787 flight diverted following smoke coming from cockpit
A United Airlines Boeing 787-900 jet, carrying 256 passengers from Melbourne to Los Angeles, was diverted to the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia on Monday. A local official told AFP that it received reports that smoke coming from its cockpit. The...
Malacañang says Miriam Santiago’s election as ICC judge ‘void’
The election of the late Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago as one of the judges of the International Criminal Court was "void," Malacañang said on Monday as it maintained that the Philippines was never part of the international tribunal. In a press briefing,...
Driver of van in fatal NLEX accident faces multiple charges
The driver of the van that got involved in a fatal accident along the North Luzon Expressway has been charged with reckless imprudence resulting in multiple homicide. The driver, who was identified as 28-year-old John Leo Jaylo, was charged before the Pampanga...
OFWS CATCHING FLIGHT: 5 dead, 10 injured as van flips over NLEX viaduct
At least five people were killed while 10 others were seriously injured after a van carrying mostly overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) flipped over while plying on northbound viaduct of the North Luzon Expressway (NLEX) in Apalit, Pampanga around noon Saturday, March...
Teen suspect in Cebu teen’s murder released due to warrantless arrest
The 17-year-old suspect in the gruesome killing of Christine Lee Silawan has been released from the custody of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) on Saturday due to warrantless arrest. The Lapu-Lapu City Prosecutor's Office ordered the released of...
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Fil-Am mail bombing suspect pleads guilty
A Filipino-American man has pleaded guilty of sending mail pipe bombs to critics of US President Donald Trump but claimed he has mental disorder, being a steroid addict for over 40 years. The Associated Press reported that Cesar Sayoc made this assertion in his...
Mayor dismissed over Boracay’s decay
Ombudsman has ordered the dismissal of the Aklan mayor in charge of Boracay Island after finding him guilty with charges that led to the environment issues besetting the country’s prime tourist destination. The country’s graft body found Malay Mayor Ciceron Cawaling...
17 OFWs bound for Dubai, Saudi intercepted at NAIA for fake OECs
A total of 17 overseas Filipino workers with fake OECs have been apprehended at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport during the Holy Week for presenting fake overseas employment certificates. Ten of them were intercepted at the NAIA 1 while the rest were stopped at...
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