The United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Export Control and Border Security (EXBS) have just concluded a two-day training program for 11 Filipino customs officers at the Port of Clark in Pampanga to help them further strengthen their capability to secure their jurisdictions from...
Protest marred the twin celebration of the 123rd anniversary of the Philippine Independence Day and the 75th year of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the United States and the Philippines at the Philippine Embassy in Washington, D.C., Tuesday night (Wednesday morning in Manila). A...
Thirty-eight youth leaders and 12 local government personnel from the Municipality of Del Carmen in the pristine Siargao Island, Surigao Del Norte have participated in the launching of the ‘Bayanivation’ Bootcamp, a project aimed to support fisherfolks’ livelihood. Bayanivation participants...
The United States Embassy in the Philippines has launched a project in Del Carmen, Surigao del Sur in support of the province's fisheries sector. Called the "Bayanivation", the project is a design-thinking boot camp recently held at the Surigao State College of Technology. The project was done in...
The United States Embassy in Manila on Tuesday welcomed the decision of the Philippine government to extend the suspension of the abrogation of the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA), citing the importance of the alliance not only to both countries but to the entire Indo Pacific region. US Embassy in...
Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Monday directed the DFA’s Office of the Undersecretary for Migrant Workers Affairs (OUMWA) to do “whatever it takes” to repatriate the 13 Filipino seafarers who have been left stranded for 17 months onboard their vessel in Southern China....
More than half of the 80 Filipinos who were accepted to American universities under the EducationUSA Philippines program had received financial aids amounting to more than P57 million ($1.2 million) from their respective schools. United States Embassy in Manila This was revealed in a real-time...
The United States government has welcomed the successful arrival to the Philippines of 2,282,850 doses of the American-made Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine that will be shared among the cities of Manila, Cebu and Davao. US Embassy Charge d'Affaires John Law (4th from right) joined Philippine in...
The United States government has lowered its travel restriction to the Philippines to Level 3, a notch lower from Level 4, the highest of its four travel categories. United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC website) “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has...
On June 9, 1975, President Ferdinand Marcos, accompanied by his family members and Cabinet officials, together with Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai, signed the Joint Communique establishing diplomatic ties between the two countries. The historic signing was held at the hospital where the seriously ill...
The Philippine Embassy in Riyadh has confirmed that an overseas Filipino worker was found dead in a hotel in Haradh, an industrial city located in the eastern part of Saudi Arabia. Philippine Embassy in Saudi Arabia (PE Riyadh website) In a statement posted on its website Tuesday night, the Embassy...
The Embassy of France to the Philippines and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) are jointly hosting a webinar to highlight the progress and obstacles that remain in ensuring that women are freely able to exercise their sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR) , as well as to identify...
