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FORMER Filipina first lady Imelda Marcos once had wardrobe that could have rivalled Kim Kardashian

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KOTA KINABALU: An undocumented migrant climbed out from the top floor of a nightclub and used air conditioner outdoor units as his flight of stairs to escape an Immigration Department raid at a popular entertainment hub here. The 27-year-old Filipino however failed in his bid to slip out undetected after one of the units he stepped on, which was fortunately near to the ground, broke off, causing him to fall. Immigration personnel on guard outside the nightclub who had already spotted him earlier

Apple relented and Facebook and Instagram remained in the app store. But Facebook's crackdown seems to have had a limited effect.... Even today, a quick search for “ khadima, ” or “ maids ” in Arabic, will bring up accounts featuring posed photographs of Africans and South Asians with ages and prices listed next to their images.... So when you put those two things together, really, it’s a recipe for disaster.” Mary Ann Abunda, who works with a nongovernmental Filipino workers’ welfare group ca

PETALING JAYA: The placement of the first batch of Indonesian domestic workers( PDI) expected to arrive today has been postponed.A source from the Indonesian embassy in Malaysia, when contacted yesterday, said the arrival of the PDI has been postponed until further notice. Human Resources Minister Datuk Seri M. Saravanan and Indonesian Ambassador to Malaysia Hermono are expected to attend a ceremony at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport( KLIA) today to welcome the arrival of “ Indonesian Man

This was revealed during a meeting of the Union of Domestic Labor Recruitment Offices with the relevant authorities, especially the embassies of the labor-exporting countries.... Head of the union Khaled Al-Dakhnan revealed that there are some technical issues pending between the recruitment offices in Kuwait and the Embassy of the Philippines in the country, and that these issues must be resolved.... He said the union is expecting the response of the Ethiopian Foreign Ministry in the next few

The government also ended a risk-classification system that banned travelers from the worst-hit countries.“ We will begin the next chapter in the road to recovery, ” Tourism Secretary Berna Romulo-Puyat said.... More than 1 million Filipinos lost their jobs in tourism businesses and destinations in the first year of the pandemic alone, according to government statistics.... 1 but was postponed as the highly contagious Omicron variant of the coronavirus spread. Fewer than a thousand new cases w

Locsin’s aggressive response, which echoed the bombastic populism of his boss, President Rodrigo Duterte, reflected how Philippine officials often see the welfare and interests of the country’s overseas labor migrants as a domestic issue.... Kari was one of at least two in recent months on a person of Filipino descent in New York City.... Alfredo Garbin Jr., a Duterte ally in the Philippine Congress, told a local newspaper at the time. Some of Mr....

SINGAPORE-His family was barred by the Ministry of Manpower( MOM) from hiring maids after his wife assaulted a domestic worker in 2014, but he circumvented the rules by getting a third party to do it for them. When the authorities learnt of the ruse, Syed Mohamed Peeran Syed Ameer Hamza and his wife, Sabah Parveen, had the maid sent back to Indonesia. Sabah, 37, and Syed, 41, were on Friday( Dec 17) convicted over their roles in intentionally obstructingthe course of justice. Syed was also convi