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A Filipino businesswoman was found dead inside her office in Paris, France, a report on GMA News' "24 Oras" said Saturday night. The body of Ellen Ortega-Apilado, 47, owner of a travel agency, was found with multiple stab wounds, including on her neck, the report said, quoting initial police investigation. The report further . . . → read more
Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) has suspended the Taiwanese envoy who was accused of mistreating her two Filipino helpers in the United States and pleaded guilty to labor fraud. According to a report of Taiwan's Central News Agency (CNA) on Friday, the MOFA said Jacqueline Liu, 64, the former head of the Taipei . . . → read more
The Taiwanese envoy who was accused of mistreating her two Filipino helpers in the United States and pleaded guilty to labor fraud has filed for family leave after being deported to Taiwan. Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said Jacqueline Liu is entitled to seven days of family leave within three months of returning . . . → read more
A former Taiwanese envoy to the United States who was accused of mistreating her two Filipina helpers was grilled for more than two hours shortly after she returned to Taiwan on Wednesday. However, the news site Central News Agency said Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) declined to give the details of its internal . . . → read more
CHICAGO – A Taiwanese official who pleaded guilty to charges of mistreating two Philippine housekeepers working in her Missouri home has been deported, the US Justice Department said Wednesday. Liu Hsien-hsien, director of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Kansas City, Missouri, "has been deported and has arrived in Taiwan," a Justice Department . . . → read more
A Filipina woman in Kuwait hailed a taxi to take her to work. However, she overheard the Bangladeshi driver telling a friend that he has a girl to sell for KD 300 (about $1,000). According to a report of the news site Emirates 24/7 on Tuesday, the Filipina asked to be let out but . . . → read more
A former Taiwanese envoy to the United States who was accused of mistreating her two Filipino helpers, has returned to Taiwan early on Wednesday after pleading guilty to labor fraud before a US federal court. Taiwan's Central News Agency (CNA) reported that Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) staff welcomed Jacqueline Liu, former director of . . . → read more
Two Filipina housemaids in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) faced a court over the weekend for having out-of-wedlock sex with partners who left them when they became pregnant, a report of the news site Gulf News said on Monday. The report did not name the Filipinas but said they were: a 33-year-old mother of . . . → read more
The Filipino woman who was captured by Egyptian tribesmen during a Catholic pilgrimage last week claimed that her captors had been kind to her and two other companions during the six-hour ordeal. In a phone interview with ABC-7 (San Francisco), 66-year-old Patti Ganal said the Bedouin tribesmen—who abducted her, fellow pilgrim Norma Supe, and . . . → read more
REDWOOD City, California – A Filipino tour operator was recently abducted by gun-toting Bedouin tribesmen while she was on a pilgrimage in Egypt. Patti Ganal believes her 6-hour ordeal being held by Bedouins happened for a reason, and may even lead to a peaceful resolution to a local conflict. In a phone conversation with . . . → read more |
     
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