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MINGLANILLA, Cebu — This noodle business is going to the dogs –all 20 of them, in fact.
Aside from a hobby, the dogs also serve as guardians of the childless couple Susana Jimenez and husband Leonides who learned there is more err, bite, to overseas work if money earned there goes into business.
Aside from the dogs, the Jimenez couple is more known here for their Five Star Fresh Pancit Canton noodles factory.
At P15,000 a day of sales revenue, as well as the scale of operations, t...
Three thousand Filipinos abroad are either in detention or currently facing criminal prosecution, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said.
Of the total figure, seventy percent – who include those who work overseas – are embroiled in immigration-related offenses and are expected to be deported after serving their brief sentences.
Around 500 Filipinos are in various jails around the world due to drug smuggling, with 210 of them detained in China alone.
The rest are in custody f...
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo today asked the Department of Foreign Affairs to look into the plight of 14 Filipino seafarers who had been kidnapped by pirates in waters off Tanzania, Africa.
In a press briefing today, Press Secretary Cerge Remonde said the President has directed the DFA Undersecretary for Migrant Workers Affairs Esteban Conejos Jr. to do everything possible to help and secure the safe release of the sailors.
The President, according to Remonde has also instructed the Overs...
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