Middle East & Africa

MANILA – A quick click on the “buy” button of an online sale, a purchase of a small knickknack, or one eat-out too many–these all add up. Unplanned purchases can be excused every once in a while, but if this becomes a habit, you could fall prey to one of the more common obstacles to financial freedom: overspending. Unfortunately, overspending ...

Today, the number of HIV victims have been drastically increasing. The alarming number may be due to people being sexually active nowadays. HIV is spread mainly by having sex or sharing injection drug equipment such as needles with someone who has HIV. Only certain fluids—blood, semen, pre-seminal fluid, rectal fluids, vaginal fluids, and breast milk—from an HIV-infected person can transmit HIV. ...

MANILA — Award-winning musician David Foster arrived in Manila on Sunday for his one-night-only concert later this week. Foster posted on his Instagram account a photo of him being interviewed at the airport, while his followers wrote messages, welcoming him to the Philippines. Foster will be joined by Boyz II Men, Natalie Cole, Ruben Studdard and Charice for his “Hitman: ...

MANILA — A Filipino painter based in the US will hold a solo exhibit at the Gallery Liencio at the Serendra at Bonifacio Global City on August 29. Salvador “Dodong” Arellano, internationally known for his paintings of thoroughbred racehorses and gamefowl, will be holding his first public exhibit in the country since he left for Los Angeles in 1987. The ...

A drill has been conducted in a school in Luoyang, China where 70 students were to submerge their heads in buckets and washbasins to experience real-life drowning. The Qianzhizhuang Primary School in Henan Province is located near a river, and children would often go there and play—especially on summer. To avoid accidents in the future, the school officials decided to ...

Oman extends Amnesty Program The Philippine Embassy in Muscat has been informed that the Government of the Sultanate of Oman will extend the amnesty program for foreign undocumented workers until October 28. The amnesty program which originally began on May 03 this year was to end on July 31. With the recent announcement, the Philippine Embassy has stepped up its ...

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 ...

Here are the top 10 Hotel and Restaurant Job Vacancies with Salary Deduction. These jobs were taken from workabroad.ph website as posted by licensed POEA agencies. COOK 3 vacancies Experience: 1 year(s) Riyadh, Saudi Arabia   SERVICE CREW 50 vacancies Experience: 2 year(s) Riyadh, Saudi Arabia   ASSISTANT CHEF 10 vacancies Experience: 2 year(s) AL-RIYADH , Sudan   BARISTA 10 vacancies Experience: ...

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 ...