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Manila, Philippines - More job opportunities will be available for Filipinos in Oman and the United Arab Emirates in the near future. This as the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) announced on Friday that it will be engaging in talks with senior labor officials from said countries in July to provide more jobs to Filipinos. In an interview w...

17 hours ago
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Manila, Philippines - A Filipino domestic helper working in Hong Kong who is wanted for qualified theft is in danger of having her Philippine passport cancelled by the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA). In an order issued May 31, a copy of which was obtained by HK News, Las Pinas City Regional Trial Court Branch 24 Presiding Judge Harold Hulig...

19 hours ago
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Manila, Philippines – Mayon Volcano's alert level status was raised from Level 1 (abnormal) to Level 2 (increased unrest) due to increased rockfall, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said. Phivolcs said in its 10 am advisory that from an average of five rockfall events per day, the frequency has increased to 49 ...

June 6, 2023
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Manila, Philippines - The Bureau of Immigration has warned against fake Overseas Employment Certificates (OECs) that are being sold online. This was after immigration officers have prevented many would-be overseas Filipino workers from leaving the country due to counterfeit OECs. “Our system is integrated with the (Department of Migrant Wor...

June 5, 2023
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Police said over the phone to HKNEWS  that three young girls, aged 2, 4, and about 6 years old were sent to hospital and later were pronounced dead. Earlier, the Police said that they received a report from a woman informing them that her 3 daughters were wounded by her husband at their residential unit on 115 Kweilin Street in Sham Shui Po at ...

June 5, 2023
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Manila, Philippines - About 450 Filipino workers are awaiting deportation to the Philippines by Kuwait, local media reports said. These things happened amid the ongoing dispute over the welfare of migrant workers' welfare in the Gulf country. Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida reported on Wednesday that the Filipinos were taken out from a Philippine...

June 4, 2023
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Manila, Philippines – Two of the most in-demand Filipino desserts sorbetes and halo-halo have been chosen among the best frozen desserts in the world, according to Taste Atlas. Taste Atlas is an online gastronomic database that promotes the local culinary culture of countries all over the world. The said website has over 10,000 specialty dish...

June 3, 2023
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Manila Philippines – The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) announced on Friday that the country's rainy season is underway.

The weather bureau stressed that scattered thunderstorms,Supertyphoon Bet...

June 2, 2023