The Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) has tweaked the rules for the so-called "green lanes" for passengers arriving from abroad effective Oct. 14, 2021. Ninoy Aquino International Airport, the Philippine's main gateway (Photo from PNA) Harry Roque,...
The Bureau of Immigration (BI) said foreign nationals may apply for a working visa while still out of the country. (Photo from PNA) Presently, the BI issues the document when the expatriate is already in the country. The BI came out with the new policy based on the decision of the inter-Agency Task...
Anti-narcotics agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and the Mandaluyong police arrested on Wednesday, August 4, two Chinese nationals after they yielded some P68,000 worth of shabu when arrest warrant was being served in a Mandaluyong City condominium. In a statement released on...
President Duterte once more defended law enforcement agencies on the killing of drug suspects against human rights advocates, claiming that Filipinos are the ones benefiting from such operations. President Rodrigo Duterte delivers his regular address to the nation on August 2, 2021. (PCOO...
Senator Panfilo M. Lacson on Monday, August 2, asked why some Chinese nationals are supposedly getting "bolder" in their multi-billion-peso drug operations in the Philippines. Senator Panfilo Lacson (Czar Dancel/MANILA BULLETIN File Photo) ‘’How long have they been operating here? Do they have...
Operatives of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) arrested a Chinese national who allegedly yielded P680,000 worth of crystal meth or "shabu" concealed in a box of face mask during a buy bust operation in Mandaluyong City on Thursday afternoon, July 1. (PDEA photo) PDEA Special...
Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) agents arrested six alleged drug pushers including two Nigerian nationals who yielded P204,000 worth of suspected crystal meth (shabu) and other drugs in a buy-bust operation in Dau, Pampanga on Thursday night, June 17. Director-General Wilkins Villanueva...
Three kidnapped Chinese nationals were rescued by members of the Manila Police District (MPD) during a follow-up operation in Makati City, police said Thursday. Screenshot from video of MPD CIDU Chief PMaj. Rommel Anicete / MANILA BULLETIN Police identified the rescued victims as Zhen Xiao, 24; Gao...
Malacañang said the government's pandemic task force will work on the policy about vaccinating foreign workers in the Philippines against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) once the country gets the bulk of COVID-19 vaccines it bought. A health worker prepares to administer a coronavirus vaccine...
Pasay City Mayor Emi Calixto-Rubiano assured that there will be no VIP treatment or any form of undue preference to be given to Chinese nationals in the city's COVID-19 vaccination program. (Pasay City Mayor Emi Calixto-Rubiano / MANILA BULLETIN) Rubiano gave the assurance after a social media post...
A career officer at the Philippine Embassy in New Delhi has succumbed to COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019), the Department of Foreign Affairs said Monday. Department of Foreign Affairs logo (DFA) “Yes, that is indeed the case. We have one death due to Covid among our personnel in the Philippine...
Bureau of Immigration (BI) operatives recently arrested 49 foreign laborers inside the factory of a steel company in Maasim town, Sarangani province for alleged misrepresentation. (Photo from BI Facebook page) BI Commissioner Jaime Morente said the foreigners--all Chinese nationals--have work...
