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By JOCELYN MONTEMAYOR Malaya Dec. 7, 2007 PRESIDENT Arroyo’s visit to Kuwait next week for a possible meeting with Emir Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah has been shelved, Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye said late Wednesday. The President was scheduled to make a side trip to Kuwait on December 10 before returning to Manila Monday from an eight-day […]
MoreMalaya Dec. 6, 2007 EXECUTIVE Secretary Eduardo Ermita hinted Wednesday that the planned side trip of President Arroyo to Kuwait may be shelved following uncertainties if her meeting with Emir Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah would push through. Ermita said there would be no sense in going to Kuwait if the President would not be able to […]
MoreBy ANTHONY IAN CRUZ Malaya Nov. 29, 2007 (Part 1 of 3) THOUSANDS of Filipinos are being enticed to pack their bags for Australia due to its temporary work visa program called “457” which would provide a minimum annual salary equivalent to at least P1.5 million. Under Australian law, employers are bound to pay 457 […]
MoreIn a press conference held tonight, Vice President Noli de Castro announced that Marilou Ranario, the OFW convicted for allegedly murdering her employer, has been dealt a final, legal blow by the Kuwaiti Supreme Court which trashed her appeal on her conviction by a lower court. Read the extensive GMANews.tv story here and a flash […]
MoreBy ANTHONY IAN CRUZ Malaya Nov. 27, 2007 FIGHTING off tears, Rosario Ranario on Monday begged President Arroyo to “do everything in your power” to save his daughter Marilou whose death sentence may be affirmed by the Kuwaiti high tribunal today. Marilou was sentenced to die by hanging by two lower courts for killing her […]
MoreBy ANTHONY IAN CRUZ Malaya Nov. 26, 2007 FAMILY and friends of Marilou Ranario, who had been sentenced to death by hanging for killing her Kuwaiti employer in January 2005, will announce today last-ditch plans to save Ranario’s life, including synchronized global protests. Kuwaiti’s Court of Cassation, the country’s highest tribunal, will issue its decision […]
MoreLast August, three women were stopped at the airport from boarding flights that were to take them home. They were Gabriela Network USA leaders Dr. Annalisa Enrile, Ninotchka Rosca and Judith Mirkinson whose names were placed by the Arroyo government on a watchlist. To the shock of many, an immigration officer revealed that the feminist […]
MoreBy ANTHONY IAN CRUZ Malaya Nov. 22, 2007 THE Department of Foreign Affairs admitted on Wednesday that the fate of overseas worker Marilou Ranario, who had been sentenced to die by hanging for killing her Kuwaiti employer in January 2005, will be known on Nov. 27, and not on Dec. 27 as the department “inadvertently” […]
MoreBy ANTHONY IAN CRUZ Malaya Nov. 22, 2007 A Dutch court has stopped criminal investigation against Jose Ma. Sison, founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines, citing the absence of “any serious evidence” against the exiled rebel leader. Judge Commissioner C. M. Derijks in a decision dated Nov. 21 wrote that “up to the […]
MoreBy ANTHONY IAN CRUZ and JP LOPEZ Malaya Nov. 20, 2007 TOSSING eggs and shouting slogans at the gates of the Department of Foreign Affairs building along Roxas Boulevard, members of Migrante International on Monday deplored Marilou Ranario’s “long wait” for government support even as they expressed hope that President Arroyo’s last-ditch pleas for clemency […]
MoreBy ANTHONY IAN CRUZ Malaya Nov. 16, 2007 ORGANIZATIONS of overseas Filipino workers in Europe are gearing to invest more in the country after signing a memorandum of understanding with Misamis Oriental governor Oscar Moreno in what they dubbed as the “Uno Por Uno Initiative.” The initiative will have local governments like the Misamis Oriental […]
MoreBy ANTHONY IAN CRUZ Malaya Nov. 13, 2007 AT least 4,000 Filipinos in Hong Kong signed Sunday a petition calling on President Arroyo to step down. Dolores Pelaez, spokesman of the Hong Kong chapter of the Gloria Step Down Movement (GSM-HK), said the number overseas Filipino workers who signed the petition showed that they were […]
MoreBy ANTHONY IAN CRUZ Malaya Nov. 13, 2007 Twelve Filipinos are detained in Singapore jails as part of the island-state’s crackdown on foreigners who present fake return-flight tickets at its airport immigration counters. The Department of Foreign Affairs said “deception of immigration officials and presenting fake e-tickets is illegal and a serious offense in Singapore, […]
MoreBy REGINA BENGCO and ANTHONY IAN CRUZ Malaya Nov. 6, 2007 PRESIDENT Arroyo has directed the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Philippine embassy in Islamabad to ensure the safety of some 3,000 Filipinos who are currently working in Pakistan after President Pervez Musharraf declared martial law on Nov. 3, Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye said […]
MoreDear Mr. Lucio Tan, Dazzie, a co-staffer at the UPLB Perspective some years back and currently a member of the UP Baguio faculty, PM’ed me tonight. She was anxious and wanted help. She asked me if there’s a nearby landline. It turns out Dazzie is in Phnom Penh and badly needed to call Philippine Airlines […]
MoreThe Department of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that nine Filipino seafarers are among the 23 crew members of a tanker that was hijacked by pirates Sunday just off the Somali coast. A more recent CNN report now says that the tanker’s crew fought back and have successfully overpowered the pirates. A US warship is also […]
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