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Got ‘fined’ in fine city of Singapore? Read this MANILA – Filipinos who previously committed offenses in Singapore and want to return there are required to submit a visit pass application for consideration, the Philippine Embassy announced. In an advisory posted on the Facebook page of the Department of Foreign Affairs, the embassy shared the information from the Singapore Immigration ...

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MANILA – Should the Philippine government impose more requirements on foreigners who want to marry Filipino women? The Family Code currently requires foreigners who want to marry Filipinos to show proof of legal capacity to contract marriage issued by their diplomatic or consular officials. House Bill 4828, which a Senate committee is now deliberating on, seeks to add more requirements: ...

Filipino killed by colleague at work, Suspect captured in Dubai within 3 hours. Sharjah, UAE- A Filipino OFW was arrested by Sharjah police on the charge of killing his fellow Filipino colleague. According to the police, the murder happened on the morning of Tuesday August 11 in a labour camp in Sharjah’s Industrial Zone No.7. Police received information about the incident ...

High-tech full body scanners are the newest security features at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport. This report shows us how the scanner works. (CNN Philippines) — Uncomfortable with security frisks at the airport? Worry no more. New full body scanners at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) would soon require less frisking for passengers at the airport. The 14 eqo ...

MANILA, Philippines – NBA Most Valuable Player Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors will visit Manila on September 5 as part of the “UA Roadshow,” sportswear company Under Armour announced Wednesday. Curry, who led the Warriors to a historic season that culminated in an NBA championship, will visit Manila in what will be the second stop of a five-city ...

MANILA – A former overseas Filipino worker (OFW) and three overseas recruitment agencies in the Philippines have come up with a coffee table book to help raise funds to rebuild the Mahayahay Elementary School in Albuera, Leyte which was destroyed by typhoon Yolanda. The book, “The Yolanda Encounter, Of Hope and More,” was authored by former OFW Romino Butz Sanchez ...

MANILA, Philippines – More than 86,000 Filipinos in Taiwan are safe after Super Typhoon Soudelor battered the island, the government said yesterday. Based on the latest report, no Filipino has been hurt, according to Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz. Officials of the Department of Labor and Employment have checked the Filipino community in Taiwan and learned that all of them remain ...

  Lebron set to visit Philippines MANILA, Philippines – Four-time NBA Most Valuable Player LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers is set to make a second visit to Manila as part of the Nike RISE program. Nike Philippines announce that James “will be arriving to inspire Team Rise and Pinoy basketball to the next level.” The exact details of James’ ...

  Philippine gold to be exhibited in New York. An exhibition of gold objects owned by ancient Filipinos will be on exhibit in New York from September to early in 2016. Dubbed “Philippine Gold: Treasures of Forgotten Kingdoms,” the exhibit features more than 100 gold objects — necklaces, chains, waistbands, bangles, ritual bowls, implements, and ceremonial weapons — that showcase ...