Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz stated that the 38,939 undocumented Filipino workers who returned home from Saudi Arabia because of the kingdom's crackdown on illegal migrants can now seek reemployment in there, reports Philstar.com.
Globe Telecom Inc. has entered a partnership with Italian telcos Campagnia Italia Mobile S.r.I. (CMI) and Effortel Technologies S.A. to offer mobile phone service to Filipinos in Italy, reports Interaksyon.com.
A system that will predict storm surge impacts and better prepare coastal communities for them should be ready by December 2014 or earlier, reports Rappler.com. Mahar Lagmay, executive director of Project NOAH (Nationwide Operational Assessment of Hazards), announced the schedule in a November 26 talk during Climate Change Consciousness Week.
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.
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