China is standing pat on its call for the Philippines to release its fishermen arrested for poaching in the West Philippine Sea last week as local authorities in Palawan pursued criminal cases against those detained, reports Inquirer.net. The poachers were caught in possession of several endangered sea turtles.
European investors want the Aquino administration to further open up certain industries such as energy, services and finance through the revision of the country’s Foreign Investment Negative List (FINL) as soon as possible, reports Inquirer.net.
Rains, sometimes lasting up to an hour each day, have brought some respite from the summer heat to many parts of Mindanao and officials said they hoped the downpours, would help ease the island’s power shortage by raising the level of water in Lake Lanao and the Agus River as well as the Pulangi River, reports Inquirer.net.
The Department of Health-led inter-agency task force on polio will formally recommend and implement “within several days” the vaccination of Filipinos, especially overseas workers, traveling to 10 countries cited by the World Health Organization as being infected with the disease, reports GMA News.
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) is investigating a Filipino diplomat and her husband who were charged in Canada for alleged human trafficking involving the exploitation of a 26-year-old Filipino woman they had hired from the Philippines and brought to Canada as a nanny, reports Inquirer.net.
A distressed OFW in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia sent a text message to Bantay OFW saying she worked as a domestic helper for a year with one employer then she was “sold” to her second employer with whom is is still working, reports Inquirer.net. The contract she signed stated that she would receive a monthly salary of 2,500 Saudi Riyal, but she’s only receiving SR 1,800, works for more than 12 hours and is not given days off.
The Obama administration wants to let some spouses of high-skilled immigrants work in the United States, reports Inquirer.net/AP. The rule affects as many as 100,000 visa-holders trained in science, technology, engineering and math. The so-called H-1B visas for high-skilled workers are among the most sought after by high tech firms. Currently, dependents of H-1B visa holders are not given work permits.
A nurse from Negros Occidental succumbed to the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome-Corona Virus (MERS-CoV) at the King Fahd Medical City in Saudi Arabia on May 6, reports Inquirer.net.
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