Police officers in Ampelokipoi of Athens were astounded when a Filipina mother abandoned her kids, ages 9 to 13, reports Tsismosaonline. The Filipina stopped her car at front of the door of the Police Department of Ambelokipoi and left four boys before disappearing.
Nearly 30 Filipinos are in jail in Hongkong for alleged drug trafficking offenses, reports Hongkong News. There were 139 Filipinos detained in Hong Kong prison facilities as of September, their cases ranging from minor offenses to theft, drug-trafficking and murder.
Filipinos in Rome may now avail of legal counseling services from the Philippine Embassy there, reports GMA News. The Department of Foreign Affairs said the embassy formalized agreements with two Italian law offices that will provide the free legal aid on the embassy premises that started Monday, Oct. 28.
Five Filipino students got perfect scores in the 2013 Australian Mathematics Competition (AMC), joining an elite group of only 24 students with that record among over 300,000 from over 40 countries who participated in this year's competition, reports Interaksyon.com.
Philippine conservationists denounced a wakeskating “stunt” at an ancient mountain rice terrace, accusing sponsors Red Bull of exploiting the UNESCO World Heritage site, reports Inquirer.net. Professional wakeskaters Brian Grubb of the United States and Dominik Preisner of Germany are shown on a video on YouTube skimming on the waters of the Banaue rice terraces. Wakeskating is similar to wakeboarding.
The Philippines was better able to address inequalities between men and women in 2013 than the year before, reports Rappler.com. This is according to the 2013 Global Gender Gap Report, which ranks the Philippines 5th out of 136 countries in terms of progress in closing the male-female gender gap in economics, politics, education and health.
Earnings of the business process outsourcing (BPO) sector are expected to overtake the amount of money sent home by overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in the next five years, reports Interaksyon.com. BPO revenues are around $16 billion dollars while remittances are about $24 billion, but eventually BPO revenues will overtake remittances, according to the Monetary Board.
With 30 million Filipinos having Facebook accounts, the Philippines is the eighth largest user of the social networking site, according to the website internetworldstats.com. Globe Telecom expects this number to rise because the company has partnered with Facebook to give its subscribers free access to Facebook on their mobile phones
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