The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) is calling on Filipinos to pray for a Filipino lawyer who is in a critical condition after being shot in a random shooting incident in Philadelphia recently.
DFA (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin identified the shooting
More than 460,000 overseas Filipinos have been repatriated from various countries since the Philippines started bringing back distressed Filipinos abroad in 2020.
(Photo by Jansen Romero / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN)
Foreign Affairs Undersecretary for Migrant Workers Affairs Sarah Lou Arr
DONNIE “AHAS” NIETES was one of the hundreds of Filipino passengers stranded in Doha, Qatar, after the Mactan International Airport was shut down due to the onslaught of Typhoon Odette. Sports commentator Bill Velasco informed Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. through a tweet that the Nietes and his party are…
REMEDIOS Ilagan, a 58-year-old housekeeper of an African diplomat in Brussels, was excited to fly back to the Philippines. Her years of hard work abroad was finally paying off. Her son is graduating at the AFP Officer Candidate School this December 20. But when she was about to check in her luggage at…
Published May 15, 2021, 4:37 PM
Despite closed borders and the lack of commercial flights available, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Friday night brought home 155 distressed overseas Filipinos from China, bringing the total number of Filipinos the agency has brought home from around the world since the pandemic started to 400,958.
The Department of Foreign Affairs repatriates 155 overseas Filipinos from China (DFA photo)
The agency’s repatriation program is funded by its assistance-to-nationals (ATN) budget.
“Most of the recent arrivals were assisted with their overstaying fees in the country by the Philippine Embassy in Beijing and the various Philippine Consulates General in Chongqing, Guangzhou, Shanghai and Xiamen,” DFA said in a statement Saturday, May 15.