A 90-year-old former magazine shop owner from Malate has become the 255th Filipino to register as an overseas voter in Italy since registration started last May 6, reports GMA News. Remedios Reyes, 90, a former seamstress in Pasay City who is now based in Italy, was among the 56 new overseas voters who registered during the Philippine Consulate General in Milan's mobile consular outreach in Turin last May 18.
Vice President Jejomar Binay has promised government assistance to, Pahima Palacasi, the 23-year-old overseas Filipino worker in Saudi Arabia who sustained burns after her employer poured boiling water on her, reports GMA News.
A newly established production company is launching the first-ever Miss World Philippines franchise on the East Coast by way of the 2014 Miss Philippines Quest USA pageant set for Saturday, July 12, at Symphony Space, reports Inquirer.net.
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.
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