The number of Filipinos contracting HIV/AIDS has continuously increased, with the Department of Health recording 358 new HIV/AIDS cases in December 2013, which is 22 percent higher than the 293 cases the year before, reports Interaksyon.com.
Filipino fisherfolk continue to fish in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea) despite China’s demand for permission to fish in the disputed territory, reports Inquirer.net.
The Philippine government vowed to check on the alleged abuses committed against Filipinos in Malaysia during the current crackdown on undocumented aliens, reports Inquirer.net.
Filipinos continue to fill what the Philippine Overseas Employment Agency describes as the most in-demand jobs abroad--domestic helpers, production workers, nurses, waiters and bartenders, cleaners, laborers, service workers, wiremen, plumbers and pipe fitters, welders and flame cutters, reports ABS-CBN News.
An unnamed 14-year-old Filipino boy died after falling from the 13th floor balcony of his apartment in Abdul Aziz Al Majid building, in Al Nahda on Wednesday evening, reports Gulf News. Police said the teen was a suicide.
As most emerging Asian currencies tumbled on Monday with an intense global sell-off of riskier assets, the peso lost up to 0.3 percent to 45.45 to the dollar, its weakest since August 2010, reports ABS-CBN News.
OFWs in Kuwait are urging the government to file charges against Philippine embassy officials and staff members accountable for their alleged role in the abuse and trafficking of overseas Filipino workers, reports ABS-CBN News.
Rose Fostanes, the Filipina caregiver who won Israel's "X-Factor" talent show has been granted permission to earn a living as a singer in the Jewish state, officials said on Monday, reports GMA News. Previously, another official said she wouldn't be able to sing professionally because she only had permission to work as a caregiver.
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