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[Title] => China gives additional $100,000 pledge to 'Ondoy' victims
[Summary] => MANILA, Philippines (Xinhua) – The Chinese government has provided an additional $100,000 as disaster relief assistance for victims of typhoon “Ondoy.”
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[Title] => RP reminds Japan of need to adhere to apology on comfort women
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The Philippines yesterday reminded Japan of the importance of adhering to the Kono Statement of 1993, which acknowledged that many women were forced into prostitution and contained the Japanese government’s apology to the victims of white slavery.
The Chief Cabinet Secretary Yohei Kono acknowledged that the Japanese military was, directly or indirectly, involved in the establishment and management of comfort stations where comfort women lived in misery under a coercive atmosphere.
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[Title] => Six OFWs spared from death penalty in Singapore
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Six overseas Filipino workers, including the Filipina maid accused of killing a fellow domestic helper in Singapore, were spared of the death penalty when their sentences were downgraded to jail terms in the different countries where they were detained.
In a report to Malacañang, the Department of Foreign Affairs said the commutation of the sentences was achieved through the efforts of the Philippine government.
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[Title] => RP to send mercy team to Pakistan
[Summary] => Malacañang will send a humanitarian team to Pakistan to help in relief and rescue efforts for tens of thousands of victims of the earthquake that struck South Asia last Saturday.
"The usual assistance we extend to countries who experience this kind of tragedy is the sending of a humanitarian team," Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye said yesterday, adding that details would be announced later.
Bunye appealed to the public, as well as private institutions, for donations that can help the victims and contribute to the speedy recovery of affected communities.
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[Title] => DFA sends 4-man team to Liberia
[Summary] => A four-man consular team will be going to Liberia to look into the hostage situation in its capital of Monrovia where two Filipino brothers were among those held captive by rebel forces, the Department of Foreign Affairs said yesterday.
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[Title] => Takano didn’t want to be assigned to ‘backward’ RP – sources
[Summary] => Japanese Ambassador Kojiro Takano has indicated that he did not want to be assigned in the Philippines, which he thought was a backward country, diplomatic sources said yesterday.
Sources said the envoy, who was summoned to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Friday, mentioned to Acting Foreign Affairs Secretary Franklin Ebdalin that he disliked to be assigned in Manila after completing his tour of duty in Saudi Arabia last year.
"He said he never wanted to be assigned here because he thought the Philippines is a backward country," the source said.
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[Title] => GMA may raise Takano issue in Tokyo
[Summary] => President Arroyo may raise in her talks with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi the controversial statement of Ambassador Kojiro Takano before the foreign press last week.
In a forum of the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines (FOCAP) in Makati City last May 29, Takano confessed that he had been having "sleepless nights" since arriving in the Philippines because of "constant danger" from the "daily threat" of crime.
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[Title] => ‘Hot lines’ for OFWs in Mideast set up
[Summary] => A 24-hour communications center has been set up in Manila to monitor the movements of Filipinos in the Middle East amid the threat of a US attack on Iraq.
Operational since Sept. 9, the center is manned by personnel of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and the Overseas Workers’ Welfare Administration (OWWA).
The DFA-OWWA "hot lines" are: 834-3333, 834-4997 and 831-8874.
Acting Foreign Affairs Secretary Franklin Ebdalin said the joint communications center is now keeping track of Filipinos being evacuated from Iraq to Jordan.
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[Title] => Korean diplomat found in morgue
[Summary] => The lifeless body of Chung Young Ho, Third Secretary of the Korean Embassy in Manila who was reported missing Saturday, was found in a funeral parlor in Marikina yesterday, the police said.
Investigators said Chung’s body did not bear any sign of external injury. But Mary Andaya, owner of King’s Funeral Parlor on J.P. Rizal Street in Marikina City, said "something" was blocking the victim’s throat, which could possibly be the cause his death.
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[Title] => North Korean asylum seeker uses Manila as transit point
[Summary] => With Manila seemingly becoming a favorite transit point for asylum seekers, a 24-year-old male North Korean defector will arrive in the country to take a flight from here to South Korea.
Acting Foreign Affairs Secretary Franklin Ebdalin said yesterday German Ambassador to Manila Herbert Jess called on him and requested the government to allow the North Korean civilian to go to South Korea via Manila. Ebdalin said that the DFA evaluated the German Embassy’s request for permission for Hae Jon, 23, to change planes in Manila.
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ACTING FOREIGN AFFAIRS SECRETARY FRANKLIN EBDALIN
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[Title] => RP reminds Japan of need to adhere to apology on comfort women
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The Philippines yesterday reminded Japan of the importance of adhering to the Kono Statement of 1993, which acknowledged that many women were forced into prostitution and contained the Japanese government’s apology to the victims of white slavery.
The Chief Cabinet Secretary Yohei Kono acknowledged that the Japanese military was, directly or indirectly, involved in the establishment and management of comfort stations where comfort women lived in misery under a coercive atmosphere.
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Six overseas Filipino workers, including the Filipina maid accused of killing a fellow domestic helper in Singapore, were spared of the death penalty when their sentences were downgraded to jail terms in the different countries where they were detained.
In a report to Malacañang, the Department of Foreign Affairs said the commutation of the sentences was achieved through the efforts of the Philippine government.
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[Summary] => Malacañang will send a humanitarian team to Pakistan to help in relief and rescue efforts for tens of thousands of victims of the earthquake that struck South Asia last Saturday.
"The usual assistance we extend to countries who experience this kind of tragedy is the sending of a humanitarian team," Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye said yesterday, adding that details would be announced later.
Bunye appealed to the public, as well as private institutions, for donations that can help the victims and contribute to the speedy recovery of affected communities.
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[Summary] => A four-man consular team will be going to Liberia to look into the hostage situation in its capital of Monrovia where two Filipino brothers were among those held captive by rebel forces, the Department of Foreign Affairs said yesterday.
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[Summary] => Japanese Ambassador Kojiro Takano has indicated that he did not want to be assigned in the Philippines, which he thought was a backward country, diplomatic sources said yesterday.
Sources said the envoy, who was summoned to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Friday, mentioned to Acting Foreign Affairs Secretary Franklin Ebdalin that he disliked to be assigned in Manila after completing his tour of duty in Saudi Arabia last year.
"He said he never wanted to be assigned here because he thought the Philippines is a backward country," the source said.
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[Summary] => President Arroyo may raise in her talks with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi the controversial statement of Ambassador Kojiro Takano before the foreign press last week.
In a forum of the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines (FOCAP) in Makati City last May 29, Takano confessed that he had been having "sleepless nights" since arriving in the Philippines because of "constant danger" from the "daily threat" of crime.
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[Title] => ‘Hot lines’ for OFWs in Mideast set up
[Summary] => A 24-hour communications center has been set up in Manila to monitor the movements of Filipinos in the Middle East amid the threat of a US attack on Iraq.
Operational since Sept. 9, the center is manned by personnel of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and the Overseas Workers’ Welfare Administration (OWWA).
The DFA-OWWA "hot lines" are: 834-3333, 834-4997 and 831-8874.
Acting Foreign Affairs Secretary Franklin Ebdalin said the joint communications center is now keeping track of Filipinos being evacuated from Iraq to Jordan.
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[Title] => Korean diplomat found in morgue
[Summary] => The lifeless body of Chung Young Ho, Third Secretary of the Korean Embassy in Manila who was reported missing Saturday, was found in a funeral parlor in Marikina yesterday, the police said.
Investigators said Chung’s body did not bear any sign of external injury. But Mary Andaya, owner of King’s Funeral Parlor on J.P. Rizal Street in Marikina City, said "something" was blocking the victim’s throat, which could possibly be the cause his death.
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[Summary] => With Manila seemingly becoming a favorite transit point for asylum seekers, a 24-year-old male North Korean defector will arrive in the country to take a flight from here to South Korea.
Acting Foreign Affairs Secretary Franklin Ebdalin said yesterday German Ambassador to Manila Herbert Jess called on him and requested the government to allow the North Korean civilian to go to South Korea via Manila. Ebdalin said that the DFA evaluated the German Embassy’s request for permission for Hae Jon, 23, to change planes in Manila.
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