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TWENTY-SEVEN Filipino students are set to begin their college and post-graduate education in Hungarian universities in Academic Year 2023-2024 through the Stipendium Hungaricum scholarship.
GOING HOME. The 25 Filipinos evacuated from Ukraine to Moldova head to Romania for their eventual repatriation to the Philippines. The group is expected to depart Bucharest on Sunday for Dubai, where they will fly homebound via a Philippine Airlines flight. (Photo courtesy of Philippine Embassy in Budapest) MANILA - A total of 25 Filipinos extracted from war-torn Ukraine to Moldova are now waiting to be repatriated home, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) reported Thursday night. The 25 left Moldova for Bucharest, Romania through the assistance of the Philippine Embassy in Hungary and Honorary Consul in Chisinau Victor Gaina. Of this number, 21 are crew members of bulk carrier MV S-Breeze that had been on drydock in the port of Odessa, Ukraine since January 27, 2022. The DFA said the Filipinos would depart Romania on Sunday for Dubai, where they will fly home via a Philippine Airlines flight. The group is expected to arrive in Manila by Tuesday. In a virtual forum, Philippine Amba
Aside from the 21 rescued seafarers in Chornomorsk in southwestern Ukraine, there are around 200 Filipino seafarers who are stranded in various ports in Ukraine near the Black Sea, the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration and the Department of Foreign Affairs said. Philippine Ambassador to Hungary Frank Cimafranca said they have identified…