TOKYO, Japan — President Benigno S. Aquino III arrived here Sunday afternoon to a rousing welcome from his countrymen, whose image as workers had improved considerably since the years when mostly Filipino nightspot entertainers roamed Japan.
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Jobs await former Gaddafi househelp
JOBS at a hotel in Cebu await the two Filipina household helpers who were rescued from the employ of relatives of ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi, the Blas F. Ople Policy (BFO) Center said yesterday.
Read MoreAirport worker nabbed for human trafficking
MANILA, Philippines - Members of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Task Force Against Trafficking on Thursday detained an airport employee who was reportedly caught assisting 2 suspected "tourist workers" bound for Bangkok, Thailand.
Read MorePinoy students in UK warn vs PH consultancy firms
Students started to arrive in the first quarter of 2011, some in groups of 10 to 15 students. All of them came to the UK to seek the proverbial green pasture.
Read More21 Filipinos to arrive from Syria
MANILA, Philippines—Twenty-one Filipinos fleeing violence in Syria were set to arrive Thursday night in Manila, the Department of Foreign Affairs said.
Read MoreAn embassy frozen in time
MANILA, Philippines — Frozen in time.
This was how Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Rafael E. Seguis described the old Philippine Embassy building in Baghdad, Iraq, when he visited the abandoned structure which is being rented to the Philippine government for $70,000 annually.
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