Twenty-three Filipino fishermen, who were detained for illegal fishing in Malaysia, are expected to arrive in the Philippines on Tuesday.
Fishing vessel FY May-Anne which came from Navotas Fish Port was caught fishing inside Malaysian waters last April 7, 2008 . Its captain and crew were detained at the Kepayan Prison in Kota Kinabalu, the capital [...]
By JEREMAIAH M. OPINIANO
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.
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 [...]
MANILA, Philippines - Former House speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. brought to Spain Thursday his campaign for an interfaith dialogue council to be set up as a former United Nations body.
DEATH NO MORE. Filipino domestic helper May Vecina is given a new life after Kuwait’s emir commuted her death sentence
Agence France-Presse
Up to 10,000 Filipinos are ignoring a Philippine government ban on working in Iraq, a recruiting company consultant said Thursday.
The Filipinos enter Iraq via Dubai and Kuwait, many to work at US military bases including camps Anaconda and Victory, said Emmanuel Geslani of Anglo-European Services Inc., a leading employer of Filipinos in Iraq.
President [...]
Agence France Presse
KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia plans to deport 150,000 mostly Filipino and Indonesian illegal migrants from Borneo island in a massive operation to begin in August, the deputy prime minister said Thursday.
Najib Razak said foreigners in Sabah, a Malaysian state on the northern tip of Borneo, which has been a magnet for illegal [...]
LOS ANGELES — Police are on the hunt for a drag-racing driver who crashed head-on into the car of a Filipino family of three on Warren Road near Lake Skinner in Winchester on June 30.
MANILA, Philippines - A guest Filipino worker in his 30s was arrested in Saudi Arabia for a tattoo that religious police found potentially offensive, an online daily reported Thursday.