Five suspects have already been arrested in the gang rape of a Filipino woman in Doha, Qatar, a report on GMA News's “24 Oras” said Thursday. The five, all Indian nationals, were arrested following a joint entrapment operation by the Criminal Investigation Department of Qatar and the INTERPOL.
The Blas F. Ople Policy Center opened a hotline for families of Filipinos who want to be rescued from Syria, reports ABS-CBNnews.com. Families of OFWs in Syria that can't get through the Department of Foreign Affairs's hotlines can call the Ople Center 833-5337, send an SMS to +639158435498, email blasoplecenter@gmail.com or post at https://www.facebook.com/blasoplepolicycenter. The center will immediately share the information with the DFA and various authorities.
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) raised crisis alert Level 4 in Egypt, signaling the mandatory evacuation of overseas Filipino workers at Philippine government expense, reports Philstar.com. The marked deterioration of peace and order in Egypt makes working and living there increasingly difficult and dangerous the DFA said.
MANILA--The United Kingdom's embassy said Tuesday that 80 percent of the Philippines is safe for British tourists, and their no-travel advise covers only several provinces in Mindanao because of on-going terrorist activity and clashes between the military and insurgent groups, reports Inquirer.net
The Philippines showed the greatest improvement in its business environment in Southeast Asia in the last five years, according to a survey of US companies in the region, reports Philstar.com. The US Chamber of Commerce and the American Chambers of Commerce in the ASEAN surveyed 475 American firms in ten ASEAN countries from May 10 to June 10, and revealed that 39 US companies in the Philippines had the biggest increase in satisfaction over the local business climate from 2008 to 2013.
For its innovative ad for a local cruise company, a team of business students from the University of the Philippines became the first team from Asia to be awarded a the global winner of Google's Online Marketing Challenge, reports GMAnews.tv. In an entry posted on its Google for Students blog, Google announced that the UP team under Professor James Ryan Jonas was the global winner for the contest's AdWords category.
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Thursday Filipinos in Egypt were coming to the Philippine Embassy in Cairo in trickles to sign up for repatriation after the violence in that Middle East country worsened, reports Inquirer.net.
From one of the world’s major centers of international diplomacy, Geneva, to the deserts of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, migrant Filipinos are making their voices heard, reports Inquirer.net. By simply posting protest photos on Facebook or holding their own “picnic” to coincide with the nationwide march Monday in the Philippines, overseas Filipinos express their indignation over the alleged massive misuse of taxpayers’ money in Congress.
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