Senator Manuel B. Villar Jr., vice chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, expressed dismay when he discovered that the very agencies that were sent by the Philippine government — the Department of Labor and Employment, Philippine Overseas Employment Administration, and Department of Foreign Affairs — to appeal for the cause of Overseas Performing Artists (OPAs) to the Japanese government betrayed them.
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Malacañang belittled yesterday the new travel advisory issued by the United States government warning its citizens against potential "multiple attacks" by some terrorist organizations said to be operating in the country.
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Malacañang yesterday called on the private sector to observe a four-day work week similar to what the national government is planning to implement on April and May to cut its expenses on fuel and electricity.
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The Philippines is verifying with the Iraqi military a report that Filipinos were among insurgents killed in a US-backed assault last week in Iraq, the Foreign Affairs department said Sunday.
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An Army captain was shot dead by another Army officer following a fistfight inside a military command post in Calbuga, Samar over the weekend, reports reaching Camp Crame in Quezon City said.
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Malaysia is experiencing a critical shortage of foreign labor and is in need of foreign workers, Labor and Employment Secretary Patrica A. Sto. Tomas said yesterday.
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The Philippine National Police (PNP) will remain on full alert status due to the 112th Inter-Parliamentary Union General Assembly at the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC) in Pasay City, PNP chief Director General Arturo C. Lomibao said yesterday.
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Opposition Senator Alfredo S. Lim called yesterday for the reimplementation of the old-fashioned but effective warrantless arrest of fugitives and criminals as an effective tool in the anti-crime and anti-terrorism efforts of the government.
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The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) yesterday brushed aside speculations that a number of Filipinos have joined Islamic militants in Iraq as the government is trying to verify reports that a number of Filipinos were among those killed in an attack by the United States on a rebel training camp in Iraq.
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Filipino negotiators are confident a Filipino hostage seized in Iraq in November is still alive, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said yesterday.
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ZAMBOANGA CITY — Four members of the Abu Sayyaf Muslim extremist group were killed and a Marine was wounded in a clash in the southern Philippine island of Jolo, the military said Monday.
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Rizal statues up in time for his birth anniversary
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