IN pursuit of promoting cultural cooperation and understanding, ambassador of the Philippines to Jordan Wilfredo C. Santos recently paid a courtesy call on Minister Haifa Najjar at the Ministry of Culture in Amman. During their meeting, Santos highlighted the role of the Philippine Embassy in advancing the country’s interests while…
AFTER more than a month of waiting and enduring the Gaza Strip’s relentless bombardment, a total of 111 out of the 137 Filipino nationals, with the guidance of the Philippine Embassy (PE) in Jordan, successfully crossed the Rafah Border on November 12, 2023 in five batches which started five days…
THROUGH countless efforts of the Philippine Embassy in Jordan, a total of 13 nonmarital children were successfully repatriated on October 6 the first batch of 60 scheduled this year. After almost a decade of continued discussions and appeals to the Jordanian government, the embassy successfully secured an exceptional concession on August 10, 2023, which paved the
JORDAN and the Philippines will soon negotiate for a new bilateral labor agreement that would allow Filipino skilled workers to work in the Arabian state. Around 95 percent of the 43,000 OFWs in Jordan are domestic workers. Jordan’s Ministry of Labor Secretary General Farouq Al-Hadidi met with Philippine Ambassador to Amman…