A crew of 19 Filipinos are on board the Norwegian ship Hoegh St. Petersburg, including a master with 27 years of experience, which is among the vessels searching for the lost Malaysian Airlines plane, reports TradewindsNews.com.
Two Filipino-American actresses are making a name for themselves in Hollywood, reports ABS-CBN News. For the past two years, Ellen D. Williams has been popping out on the hit CBS show "How I Met Your Mother." Another Fil-Am actress, Ashley Argota, announced that come June, she will be a part of the cast of the second season of ABC Family's "The Fosters".
A total of 4,034 Philippine-educated nurses took the US National Licensure Examination (NCLEX) for the first time in 2013, in the hopes of obtaining gainful employment in America, reports Interaksyon.com.
A European television series with two Filipino characters has won the Flemish version of the US Emmy Awards following cult success since its original run at the end of 2013, reports ABS-CBN News. "Eigen Kweek" is about a local farmer who tries to regain lost money by growing cannabis. It also features two Filipino characters, sisters Julita and Nenita Pineda from Caloocan City, who both ended up in Belgium is search of a better life.
MADRID—Spanish police said that they had broken up two drug trafficking rings specializing in crystal meth, arresting 42 people, almost half of them Filipinos, reports Inquirer.net. Police seized eight kilos (17.6 pounds) of the highly addictive drug -- known as “ice” or “shabu”-- and 15,000 ($21,000) in cash in raids across Madrid, Barcelona and Murcia, the police said in a statement. Police arrested 20 Filipinos, 19 Spaniards and three Africans—one each from Mali, Senegal and Togo.
For a lucky guess, a Filipino-American is now $45,000 richer. Emilbert DeLeon, a nursing assistant based in Daly City, California, won the grand prize on Wheel of Fortune on March 19, report the Huffington Post and GMA News. DeLeon, during the final round, managed to bag the three-word grand prize question (“new baby buggy”) on two letters alone (N and E). [See YouTube video here.]
The Bureau of Immigration on denied reports of a stricter policy that requires Filipinos who want to travel abroad to show proof of their financial capability to do so, reports GMA News. Under the standing policy, the Bureau will allow Filipinos to leave the country as long as they can show travel documents including a passport, visa and a roundtrip ticket. However, travelers bound for countries that have a high incidence of human trafficking will be subject to a secondary assessment.
Ambassador Safdar Hayat of Pakistan handed over a check for $1 million to Foreign Secretary Albert F. del Rosario as his government’s contribution to the ongoing relief and reconstruction efforts in the wake of devastation caused by Super Typhoon Yolanda which struck the central Philippines on Nov. 8, reports Inquirer.net.
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