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THE Department of Foreign Affairs said the remains of the Filipino honeymooners who drowned in Maldives will be flown shortly to Sri Lanka where they will be embalmed before their final journey home.

THE Department of Foreign Affairs has requested the assistance of authorities in Indonesia in locating a 25-year-old Filipina tourist who has been missing in Bali since Christmas.

THE Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has been informed that there were no Filipinos among the victims of the explosion at a bakery in the French capital on Saturday.

A FILIPINO worker in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Monday was allegedly stabbed to death by a fellow Filipino, the Department of Foreign Affairs said.

THE Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) is monitoring the aftermath of a shooting incident near Los Angeles late Friday (late Saturday afternoon in Manila) that left at least three persons dead and four others wounded.

THE government must encourage returning Filipino household service workers (HSWs) to learn highly-paid skills such as welding, ACTS-OFW Party-list said yesterday.

THE Philippine Overseas Employment Administration is now accepting applications for nurses under the Triple Win Project of Germany.

NO Filipino was among the fatalities of the explosion that hit an apartment building in Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, the Philippine Embassy in Moscow said.

THE Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) yesterdat said it is monitoring if there were Filipinos among those affected by the tsunami in Indonesia.

AS many overseas Filipino workers (OFW) continue to arrive in the country to be with their families during the Christmas season, former Special Assistant to the President Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go renewed calls for the creation of a Department solely for OFW concerns.

FORMER Special Assistant to the President and administration senatorial candidate Christopher Bong Go is pushing for the creation of a Department of OFW Affairs instead of the Department of Housing proposed by the lawmakers.

SOME 109 distressed overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) from Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia arrived yesterday.

THE Department of Foreign Affairs expressed condolences to the family of a Filipina whose body was found floating in a river in Sabah more than a week ago.

THE Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has asked the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) to allow Filipinos working in Libya to return to work after their vacation in the Philippines.

A delegation of Philippine government officials led by Foreign Affairs Undersecretary for Migrant Workers Affairs Sarah Lou Y. Arriola and Ambassador to Manama Alfonso A. Ver, met with Bahrain’s key Foreign Affairs officials led by Undersecretary for International Affairs Dr. Shaikh Abdulla bin Ahmed bin Abdulla Al Khalifa to discuss common issues for Bahrain and the Philippines.