BACOLOD CITY – A 42-year-old Chinese national was stopped in a seaport in Barangay Mantaangan, E.B. Magalona, Negros Occidental on Tuesday, April 28, after attempting to board a vessel bound for Ajuy, Iloilo without proper documents. Commodore Christopher Auro, commander of the Philippine Coast...
Four foreign nationals were apprehended in Mindanao for allegedly violating Philippine immigration and environmental laws. Lin Wenyu, alias Anson Lais Lim, 52, male, from Fujian, China, was arrested on Thursday, April 16, in a hardware store in Barangay Lower Taway, Ipil municipality, Zamboanga...
Philippine Ambassador to Washington Jose Manuel “Babe” Romualdez admitted that there are already "quite a number" of undocumented Filipinos who are being detained or processed for deportation amid United States President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigrants. (From left) Philippine...
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) assured Filipinos fearing for their statuses in the United States that they won’t be tattle tales and surrender them to the US government amid a planned crackdown on illegal migrants there by the incoming Trump administration. Two women hold a...
(MANILA BULLETIN) Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) Secretary Hans Leo Cacdac says he intends to increase the agency’s ongoing efforts to encourage overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who are currently undocumented to go through the legal...
BUTUAN CITY – The Police Regional Office-13 confiscated undocumented lumber valued at P1.8 million in the Caraga region last May. The PRO-13 Regional Operations Division said 52,747.85 board feet of illegally cut lumber were seized, with the Surigao del Sur Police Provincial Office (PPO)...
BUTUAN CITY – Police have seized 29,314.10 board feet of undocumented lumber worth P1.4 million in the intensified drive against illegal logging in Surigao del Sur and Agusan del Sur provinces. POLICE inventory illegally cut logs in Surigao del Sur. (Photo courtesy of PRO 13-PIO via Mike U....
Eighteen distressed Filipino workers from Lebanon were repatriated last week by the Philippine Embassy in Lebanon, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said on Monday, April 3. In a statement through the DFA, the embassy reported that it sent home 18 distressed Filipino workers on March 29 and...
The Philippine Navy (PN) said Friday, FEb. 17, that it has intercepted an oil tanker which was carrying 847,000 liters of undocumented fuel with an estimated value of P50.8 million off Corregidor Island. IMG-1bcd2e5b6f47dbe59de113064c951fe6-V Lt. Regeil Gatarin, spokesperson of the Naval Forces...
A total of 367 distressed and undocumented Filipinos from the Middle East have finally made it home to the Philippines via a sweeper flight mounted by the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) over the weekend. Filipino repatriates from Lebanon, Syria, and Bahrain undergo health protocol upon their...
