Filipinos in Nigeria More Worried About Jobs than Ebola

The recent inclusion of Nigeria among the West African nations battling the deadly Ebola virus alarmed the 7,000 Filipino workers deployed in various states in Nigeria, which has just recovered from the deployment ban five years ago, reports Inquirer.net. Filipino workers are mostly engineers in oil industries and multi-national construction firms; teachers, accountants and those who are married to Nigerian nationals.

There Are More Fat Filipino Women Than Men -- Study

More Filipino women are battling chronic energy deficiency and obesity than men, according to the latest national nutrition survey by the Food and Nutrition Research Institute, reports Inquirer.net. 

Filipino Wins Design Tilt for US Nat'l Humanities Medal

Paul Balan's winning medal design (Source:humanitiesmedaldesign.challengepost.com)

Filipino immigrant Paul Balan, from Paete, Laguna, won a $3,000 prize in a design competition sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities that attracted 131 entries, including two from Balan, reports the Chicago Tribune. He designed the gold-plated medal that shows Lady Liberty in a diadem and flowing dress. 

UK-Based Filipina Nanny Murdered During Trip to PH

Maribel Alpas

Detectives want to question two UK-based nurses after their children’s nanny was found beheaded in the Philippines. Maribel Alpas, 31, worked for Filipino nurses Dennis and Girlie Samson for two years, caring for their two young children, in Warrington, Cheshire. During a trip home to see her family in the Philippines, the nanny went missing and on March 25, her severed head was found in a canal, reports the Daily Mail.

No Threat of Property Market Bubble in PH -- IMF

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said growth in home and office prices in the Philippines has been relatively modest compared to other markets in the region and there is no danger of a property market bubble, reports Inquirer.net. 

No Shore Leave for OFWs in Ebola Ports

The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration has barred Filipino seamen on ships operating or calling on Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone ports from going on shore leave in those countries, for fear of Ebola contamination, according to the POEA's Official Gazette .

Filipino Helping Build Cooking Tool for Outer Space

Apollo Arquiza beside a space galley looks like aboard a zero gravity G-Force 1 plane (Photo from NASA/JPL/Cornell)

Filipino citizen Apollo Arquiza, a postdoctoral research associate who is a graduate of the UP Los Baños, is part of a team at Cornell University now building a space galley to enable cooking in outer space, reports Interaksyon.com. 

Filipinos Joining Extremists in Iraq -- Dep't of Foreign Affairs

Philippine authorities are on alert following an increase in the number of Filipinos going to Iraq and Syria to train and fight with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil), reports Inquirer.net. The foreign affairs department reported that two Filipinos have died fightingn the conflict. One of the two Filipinos found dead with Syrian fighters was raised in Syria by his Filipino mother and a Syrian father (now deceased). The other was carrying a Filipino passport.