The Bureau of Immigration on Tuesday arrested one of Korea’s most wanted persons hiding in the Philippines. Cho Yang Eun, 63, an alleged Korean mafia leader, was seized in Angeles, Pampanga, reports Inquirer.net.
A Pinay singer-songwriter Rhona Nolasco is featured on four tracks of a new electronic band Deckajam in the United Kingdom, reports ABS-CBN News. Deckajam comprises established music producers Kevin 'Energy' Thorpe and Nick '235' Sanett.
The Philippines' giant band of overseas workers, already regarded as national heroes for toiling in foreign lands, are coming to the rescue again as they dig deep to send more cash back to their typhoon-hit homeland, reports GMA News/Agence France-Presse.
The government is now preparing bunkhouses and temporary shelters as the number of the internally displaced persons arriving in Manila from the typhoon-ravaged Visayas has reached around 6,000, reports ABS-CBN News.
Desperate Filipinos in the UAE are turning to loan sharks to borrow money they can send home to relatives affected by the deadly Typhoon Haiyan, reports 7 Days. Frank Cimafranca, Philippine Consul General to Dubai and the Northern Emirates, urged overseas Filipino workers not to get sucked in by the illegal lenders.
A group of fishermen expressed frustration at plans announced by the Department of Agriculture (DA) to distribute 1,300 boats to fishermen, saying the number of fishermen who had lost their boats to Supertyphoon “Yolanda” could easily reach 100,000, reports Inquirer.net.
Usually a fisherman catches a fish and puts it in the fridge. In one typhoon-wrecked Filipino village, fishermen are putting themselves in the fridge and then going fishing, reports NBCNews.com. Typhoon Haiyan laid waste to just about everything in its path, including the long, stylish fishing boats moored along beaches. Jimmy Obaldo's kids gave him the idea to use debris-refrigerator as a boat.
The Netherlands' national campaign for "Yolanda" reiief, Help the Philippines Giro 555, an 18-hour live TV/radio fund-raising last November 18 in Hilversum-The Netherlands, raised 24,720,728 Euros, reports Muntingnayon.com.
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