SYDNEY, Australia – Australia will shutter its embassy in Afghanistan this week, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced Tuesday, underscoring deep fears about the "increasingly uncertain security environment" in Kabul as foreign troops withdraw. Morrison said the facility would close as an...
Australian Ambassador to the Philippines Steven Robinson AO on Thursday confirmed that negotiations are still ongoing between the Department of National Defense and Austal, a world-renown Australian defense contractor and shipbuilder, for the procurement of AUS$600 million worth of six naval...
The event marks 75 years of the bilateral relationship between the Philippines and Australia. To highlight another milestone of mateship, the Australian Embassy in the Philippines will host “Stream and Sip,” a free online film and food festival bringing the best of Australian experiences to...
Award-winning Filipino-Australian writer Dr. Merlinda Bobis has successfully launched her book, “The Kindness of Birds”, at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra during the celebration of the 75 th anniversary of the establishment of Philippines Australia diplomatic relations last week....
The government of Singapore is providing free hospitalization to Filipinos with valid permits to stay, Philippine Ambassador Jose Yap said Tuesday. Currently, Yap said only 35 out of the 578 confirmed cases among Filipinos are confined at isolation wards in hospitals while the rest have fully...
Several leaders of various Filipino-American groups thanked United States President Joe Biden for the recent delivery of more than 2.5 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccines to the Philippines through the COVAX facility. Filipino-American community leaders gather outside the White House in...
Malacañang is confident that Philippine Embassy in Tel-Aviv and the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) are very much prepared for any contingency that may arise as a result of the escalating conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians. At the regular press briefing, both the...
Chinese Ambassador Huang Xilian turned over 1,000 learning tablets to Manila Mayor Francisco "Isko Moreno" Domagoso for use by students in the capital city engaged in distance learning on Wednesday, May 12. (Photo from Manila PIO) In an online handover ceremony, Domagoso received the tablets from...
The Philippine Embassy in Jerusalem has not received any report of Filipino casualties amid the ongoing escalation of the violence between Israel and the Palestinians, the Department of Foreign Affairs said Wednesday. DFA Strategic Communications Executive Director Ivy Banzon-Abalos said...
The United States on Monday welcomed the successful delivery of 193,050 doses of the US-made Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to the Philippines. The 193,050 doses of the US-made Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines being unloaded at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport, Monday night. (U.S....
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...
A 10-day training series for anti-narcotics authorities will be launched by the Office of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) of the United States Embassy in the Philippines in cooperation with the Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB) and the Colombo Plan Drug Advisory Program in a bid...