Measles, a vaccine-preventable disease, which should have been eliminated years ago, has infected hundreds of children in the country, causing an outbreak in at least nine cities in the National Capital Region, reports Interaksyon.com.
The Philippine government suspended three recruitment firms for allegedly illegally deploying Filipino workers to Jordan through Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), reports GMA News. Suspended were Empleos Incorporated, Nahed International Manpower Services and Ridzkey Human Resources International Services, according to the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA).
The US government deported about 369,000 immigrants, including a number of Filipinos, during fiscal year 2013, according to new statistics from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released last month, reports Inquirer.net. It shows a 10 percent drop from the previous year — the first since President Barack Obama took office in 2008.
Singapore’s top court recognized the right of the Philippine National Bank (PNB) to hold in trust the $23 million seized from the estate of the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos, reports Inquirer.net. It does not jeopardize the legal position of the Philippine government, Malacañang said on Saturday.
KUALA LUMPUR--Ten Filipinas were among 35 women rescued were from three reflexology centers in a in Setapak, where they had been cooped up in makeshift rooms and forced into sexual slavery, reports Malaysia's Star.com.
The Department of Labor and Employment seeks to reduce the estimated 8,000 overstaying overseas Filipino workers in South Korea so that it could increase its deployment in the north Asian country through its Employment Permit System (EPS), reports Interaksyon.com.
Beginning October 2015, only e-Passports (dark maroon machine-readable passports) will be accepted by immigration authorities as the old passports are phased out, reports Inquirer.net. The Department of Foreign Affairs announced that all non-machine readable passports must be completely phased out by November 24, 2015.
A group of mostly high school students from Metro Manila topped the just-ended 2013 Asian Intercities Teenagers’ Mathematics Olympiad held in West Java, Indonesia, the Inquirer.net learned Monday. The news was relayed to the Inquirer by Dr. Simon Chua, president of the Mathematics Trainers’ Guild-Philippines (MTG) and head of the Philippine delegation to the 10-nation competition held Dec. 28.
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