aaaMANILA---The number of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who tested positive for the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in the first six months of 2018 in the Philippines has reached 451, up by 14.4 percent from the 394 cases reported during the same period last year.
ACTS-OFW Rep. Aniceto Bertiz III urged returning migrant workers who had engaged in high-risk sexual behavior in the past to get themselves voluntarily tested.
“All told, OFWs with HIV now account for 10 percent of all the cases in the National HIV and AIDS Registry,” Ber...
aaaPresident Rodrigo Duterte has vowed to raise the salaries of public school teachers even as he acknowledged that he cannot double their pay, unlike policemen and soldiers.
Duterte said the government the sheer number of public school teachers at 880,000 makes it impossible for the government to have sufficient resources to double their salary.
"I promise: Your salary will be raised soon. We've been trying to come up with a progressive (increase)," the President said.
In January, Duterte signed Joint Resolution No. 01 authorizing the in...
aaaFOOD is taken seriously in Osaka. It did not become known as Japan's food capital for nothing. The Japanese word “kuiadore” – which roughly translates to “eat until bankrupt” (or to put it mildly, eat until you drop), perfectly captures the spirit of gustatory pleasures in Osaka.
From that unassuming stall selling street food to the ubiquitous moving crab billboard, from the humble ramen house to the Michelin-starred restaurant where you can literally eat your way to bankruptcy, there is no dearth of delicious dishes to choose from...
aaaThe gastronomic scene in Metro Manila is booming at an overwhelmingly fast rate. It seems there is a new must-try restaurant opening every month in every city, giving residents in the capital a wide array of choices to explore. You can try dishes from neighboring Asian countries to far away Europe without having to leave the urban jungle you call home.
Annam (P300 to P500 per person)
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aaaTHE Department of Labor and Employment is looking at Russia as the next work destination for skilled Filipino workers, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said.
Bello said President Duterte will discuss labor relations when he visits the socialist state and meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin early next year.
“I already sent a memo to the President requesting him to include the possible deployment of skilled and professional workers to Russia,” Bello said.
He also said that there is a demand for construction and h...
aaaTHE late dictator Ferdinand Marcos was buried with military honors at a heroes’ cemetery in Manila almost 30 years after his death in Hawaii, triggering mass protests across the country.
President Rodrigo Duterte, who was in Peru for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, gave orders in August that the burial may proceed, fulfilling an election campaign promise.
Progressive groups filed their opposition to the burial before the Supreme Court, which in turn ruled that Marcos can be interred at the Libingan Ng Mga Bayani...
aaaTHE Philippine Navy’s latest frigate, the Barko ng Republika ng Pilipinas (BRP) Andres Bonifacio, has left California.
The ship left the US Coast Guard Base in Alameda, California and embarked on its voyage to the Philippines on November 1 with Captain Brendo J. Casaclang in command.
Philippine Consul General to San Francisco Henry S. Bensurto, Jr. led the sendoff party which included Consulate officials, military attaché B/Gen Eric Calip and members of the Filipino-American
community.
In his speech, Bensurto congratulate...
aaaLABOR Secretary Silvestre H. Bello III has condoled with the family of the overseas Filipino worker (OFW) who was allegedly raped by her employer in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Secretary Bello said that Filipina Irma Avila Edloy, 35, passed away Friday. He added that Edloy was rushed to King Salman Hospital in Riyadh because of severe injuries from suspected sexual assault.
She lapsed into a coma soon after arriving at the hospital.
Edloy’s case was brought to the attention of Secretary Bello during his trip to Saudi Arabia to l...
aaaTHE Abu Sayyaf has beheaded an 18-year-old Filipino male captive in Indanan, Sulu province after failing to get ransom from the boy’s family.
Western Mindanao Command spokesman Maj. Filemon Tan said the head of kidnap victim Patrick James Almodovar was found inside a plastic bag that was dumped by three motorcycle-riding men at Kilometer 2 in Barangay Kajatian.
Almodovar was kidnapped by the Ajang-Ajang faction of the Abu Sayyaf in Barangay Asturias in Jolo, Sulu, on July 16.
Tan did not say how much the Abu Sayyaf had de...
aaaA re-elected lawmaker has appealed to his colleagues in Congress to support the country’s public school teachers by increasing their basic monthly salary to at least P36,000.
Rep. Raul Del Mar (1st District, Cebu City) said public school teachers are among underpaid workers in society. Despite the fact that they are heralded as molders of children’s future, they receive only less than twenty thousand a month each for their basic salary.
Del Mar filed a bill that seeks to upgrade the salary grade level of teachers in public elementary ...
