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Locsin halts DFA blood money payments to Villavende family

Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Monday ordered the Philippine Embassy in Kuwait to stop the payment of P7.5 million in blood money...

Saudi halts international flights over virus variant

Saudi Arabia on Sunday halted international flights and suspended entry through its land and sea ports for at least a week, after a new...

Kuwait holds polls for parliament seats under virus shadow

Kuwait City—Kuwaitis went to the polls on Saturday in a parliamentary election overshadowed by Covid-19, with facilities laid on for citizens infected with the...

Kuwait’s new emir needs to balance relations with Saudi Arabia and Iran

Kuwait’s new emir has big shoes to fill and formidable issues to deal with—balancing relations with regional powers Saudi Arabia and Iran, steering the...

PH death row convict in Kuwait gets pardon

A Filipino who was sentenced to death in Kuwait for the murder of his Filipina partner in October 2007 has been pardoned by the...

Kuwait expels thousands of workers amid crude slump

Kuwait City, Kuwait—After more than 45 years washing cars in Kuwait to make ends meet, Egyptian Marzouq Mohammed will soon be kicked out of...

US approves sale of 84 Patriot missiles to Kuwait

The United States said Thursday it has approved the sale of 84 of the most recent generation of Patriot missiles to Kuwait, plus equipment...

Amnesty

The Philippine Embassy in Kuwait is urging OFWs and undocumented Filipinos to avail of Kuwait’s amnesty program and come back home.

Rody eyes exemption from Kuwait travel ban

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Full deployment of workers to Kuwait resumed

The Department of Labor and Employment on Friday announced the full resumption of deployment of workers to Kuwait. The department made the announcement after the...

Partial lifting of Kuwait ban eyed

The Labor department is set to move for the partial lifting of the ban on the deployment of Filipino workers to Kuwait following a...

PH, Kuwait seal new labor pact

The Philippines has signed a standard contract of employment with Kuwait to improve the working conditions of overseas Filipino workers, but the Duterte administration...

Misplaced anger

Kuwait is reportedly outraged by Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr.’s remarks demanding that the Kuwaiti employers of Filipino domestic Jeanelyn Villavende pay with their...

Pinoy probers get Kuwait nod on OFW case

The Kuwaiti government will allow Filipino probers to join the investigation of the death of domestic helper Jeanelyn Villavende, allegedly in the hands of...
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