Filipino, Asian informality in posh Kuala Lumpur lifts homelands
By JEREMAIAH M. OPINIANO
Top immigration official to assess Filipino citizenship of deportees in Zambo
A top official of the Bureau of Immigration and Deportation arrived Wednesday in Zamboanga City to head and assess the travel documents of Filipino deportees from Sabah, Malaysia.
5 Pinoy kids, 3 babies to be deported from Kuwait
MANILA, Philippines - Eight children - including three babies - of undocumented Filipino workers in Kuwait will be deported on Friday.
In a report from QTV’s Balitanghali on Thursday, four of the Filipino children will be accompanied by officials from the Philippine embassy because their parents are still taking care of their immigration papers.
Meanwhile, the three [...]
Recruiter charged for duping 2 Pinays into aabah prostitution
MANILA, Philippines - Two Filipino women who were promised employment as waitresses in Malaysia but were later forced into prostitution lodged a complaint against their recruiter on Wednesday.
Soldier tagged as Ilocos Sur cop killer during line-up
BANTAY, Ilocos Sur – An eyewitness has tagged a soldier of the Philippine Army’s 50th Infantry Battalion as the gunman who shot and killed an Ilocos Sur cop and a civilian several months ago, police said on Thursday.
Witness Jennelyn Isio identified the suspect twice during a line-up of 48 soldiers at the Ilocos Sur Provincial [...]
Student killed, 18 hurt in Bacolod smashup
MANILA, Philippines – A 16-year-old student was killed and 18 people were injured in a 10-vehicle smashup in the central Philippine city of Bacolod in Negros Occidental province on Thursday morning, police said.
Senior Inspector Levy Pangue, chief of the Bacolod police’s Traffic Management Unit, said the lone fatality was identified as Carel Torianes, a student [...]
Victims of rights violations picket CA, march to SC - report
MANILA, Philippines
- Relatives of victims of abductions and disappearances marched to the
Supreme Court in Manila Thursday to voice their dismay over the court’s
allged failure to hand justice to them.
Radio dzBB’s Carlo Mateo reported that the relatives, led by Edita
Burgos, mother of missing activist Jonas Burgos, lamented the Court of
Appeals’ dismissal of their petitions for writ [...]
3 robbers get life terms for killing UP nursing student
Three men were sentenced on Thursday to reclusion perpetua, or life imprisonment, for killing a University of the Philippines Manila nursing student during an attempted robbery in 2004.
Judge Reynaldo Alhambraof the Manila Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 53 found the following guilty of attempted robbery with homicide – Herbert Malubay, William Sudayao, and Amador Ablana [...]
PNP alerts forces on reported ‘Sparrow’ presence in Metro
MANILA, Philippines – The National Police on Thursday alerted its forces on possible attacks by urban hit men of the New People’s Army (NPA) in Metro Manila.
In a chance interview at Camp Crame, PNP chief Director General Avelino Razon Jr said he has reminded police personnel to be always on the lookout to prevent [...]
Barangay official killed in communist attack in Cotabato
KIDAPAWAN - A local government official was killed and three policemen wounded in an attack by communist rebels in the southern Philippines, officials said Thursday.
About 15 heavily armed members of the communist New People’s Army (NPA) attacked a plantation owned by the Dole fruit company in Makilala town early Thursday, local military spokesman Major Armand [...]