The US Embassy along Roxas Blvd. in Manila. (Photo credit: PLM website)
The United States Embassy in Manila today announced a new consular fee schedule which will be effective starting July 13, 2010.
The new fee schedule includes substantial increases in certain visa application fees and consular services to US and non-US citizens.
The embassy said the new fee schedule is based on an order from the US Department of State.
A Bayanihan event in New York (Courtesy of NAFCON, SANDIWA)
The ubiquitous balikbayan boxes today bear not the usual “padala” but relief aid.
That’s because Filipino organizations worldwide immediately stepped up to the challenge of gathering much-needed relief aid to victims of the two typhoons in the country. And their efforts continue. Continue reading →
The Department of Foreign Affairs announced today that three Filipinos were quarantined at a Hong Kong hotel, the same hotel where a swine flu-infected Mexican checked in recently.
I hope our thousands of Filipino workers there take extra precautions.
Here is the full press release from the DFA:
The Philippine Consulate General in Hong Kong reported that there are three Filipino guests at the Metropark Hotel in Wanchai who were covered by the seven-day quarantine operations imposed by Hong Kong health authorities.
Hong Kong’s Department of Health imposed, as a temporary emergency measure, a seven-day quarantine on its reported first case of H1N1 human swine flu at Metropark Hotel on 01 May. The H1N1 patient is a Mexican male who checked in at the hotel but later brought to the Ruttonjee Hospital after experiencing coughs, sore throat and other flu-like symptoms. The quarantine will last until Friday, 08 May 2009. Continue reading →
Stopping short of banning travel to Mexico, the Department of Foreign Affairs today asked Filipinos going to Mexico “to avoid large crowds, shaking hands, kissing people as a greeting, and using the subway” citing the swine flu outbreak in the country.
The DFA also announced that government will be closely monitoring arrivals from the US and Mexico. Continue reading →
Some say there’s overreaction but what’s the take of domestic helpers in Hong Kong themselves regarding the Chip Tsao incident?
Here’s a sampler — a press release of the largest Filipino organization in Hong Kong regarding the apology from the controversial columnist:
While we recognize the public apology of Mr. Chip Tsao, he must stop defending his article as a satire and that he was just misunderstood. We will press on with our protest.
This was the statement of the United Filipinos in Hong Kong (UNIFIL-MIGRANTE-HK) as it announced that the protest against racism slated this Sunday, April 5, will push through. The protest, being organized by various Filipino migrant groups in Hong Kong, is linked to the article “The War At Home” written by Chip Tsao and was published in both the printed edition and online site of HK magazine.
“Mr. Tsao’s apology is recognized but we are appalled of his continued defense of the piece as a satire. It was targeted towards a whole nation and a particular sector that made it nothing but a racial slur,” said Dolores Balladares, chairperson of UNIFIL. Continue reading →
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