Representatives from the United States of America (USA) and the European Union (EU) vowed to continue working with the Philippines after observing the recently concluded elections on May 9. Representatives from the European Union (EU) Delegation and embassies of the United States of America (USA),...
Catherine Valdez is no ordinary beauty queen Jennifer Leu-Yong In her early school years, Catherine Valdez runs with the neighborhood boys playing basketball, wearing oversized clothes. “I was called an ugly duckling because I had dark complexion, I am tall, and too thin. I was bullied,” says...
Kay Misis ang hanapbuhay; Si Mister sa bahay The Filipino family at their home in Switzerland In the first part of this feature, we looked into the personal circumstances and motivations that led a Filipino couple to decide to leave everything behind, move their family abroad, following greener...
Berlin, Germany – At the entrance to a school in Berlin, multicoloured letters spell out "welcome" for nine Jewish children from Ukraine above a drawing of the German, Ukrainian and Israeli flags surrounded by red hearts. Staff and pupils at the school, run by a "progressive traditional"...
Two men, 38-year-old and 31-year-old respectively, were arrested Monday afternoon on suspicion of shooting two police officers dead during a traffic control on a rural road in western Germany Monday morning, according to a press release by local authorities. The shooting occurred at around 4:20...
Top diplomats look beyond COVID-19 and the challenge of rebuilding LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, DIPLOMATS From left: Huang Xi Lian, ambassador of China; Anke Reiffenstuel, ambassador of Germany; Teodoro Locsin, Secretary of Foreign Affairs; Steven Robinson, ambassador of Australia; and Michele Boccoz,...
BERLIN, Germany – Germany's seven-day COVID-19 incidence rate per 100,000 inhabitants continued to rise and reached 375.7, up from 362.7 on the previous day, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases reported on Monday. Daily COVID-19 infections in Germany rose to 25,255 cases,...
Australia, Japan, France, and Germany have expressed “serious concerns” on the latest incident between China and the Philippines in the Ayungin Shoal and urged China to abide by international maritime laws, particularly the landmark 2016 Arbitral Tribunal ruling that invalidated Beijing’s...
From Berlin to Seoul TEAM PHILIPPINES All smiles as the Ambassador engaged with Team Philippines at the Embassy, immediately after her presentation of credentials After a highly productive stint in Berlin, Ambassador Maria Theresa ‘Tess’ Dizon-de Vega is now the Philippines’ top envoy to...
Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. on Tuesday, Nov. 9, appealed to local government units (LGUs) to have a sense of urgency in speeding up their immunization drive against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) instead of making alibis why they could not keep up with other areas. Vaccine czar Carlito...
A Filipino scientist from Mindanao, whose projects involve the upcycling of waste to produce materials used in infrastructure, was among this year’s awardees in the prestigious Green Talents International Forum for High Potentials in Sustainable Development in Germany. Top: Dr. Lawagon receives...
The government of Germany donated 844,800 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) to the Philippines on Friday afternoon, Oct. 15. A total of 844,800 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine against COVID-19 are donated by Germany to the Philippines on Oct. 15, 2021. (Photo: NTF...
