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OFW group appeals for ban exemption

Overseas Filipino workers from mainland China appealed before a Committee on Health meeting in Congress that they are excused from the travel ban. The OFWs...

PH eases travel ban vs. South Korea

The government on Tuesday partially lifted the travel ban to South Korea, allowing Filipino tourists to go there except to North Gyeongsang Province, including...

Travel ban on Korea enforced

The travel ban to and from South Korea due to an outbreak of the new coronavirus (COVID-19) there is now fully in force after...

PAL lays off 300 workers amid losses, rising costs

Philippine Airlines on Friday said it laid off about 300 employees due to continued losses. The Lucio Tan-led airline said it was pursuing business restructuring...

Pinoys cautioned against travel to South Korea; infections rising

The Department of Foreign Affairs said on Monday that there is no travel ban imposed on Filipinos traveling to South Korea but it advised...

Fnancial aid for OFWs bound for HK, Macau ends

The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration has announced it has stopped giving cash assistance to overseas Filipino workers bound for Hong Kong and Macau in...

‘Tourist arrivals down due to COVID-19 outbreak’

Philippine airports have lost about 20 percent or 322,000 international and domestic passengers in three weeks since January due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the...

PH eases travel ban for OFWs

Filipinos with jobs in Hong Kong and Macau can now go back to work as they have been exempted from the outbound travel ban...

The COVID fall-out

"It is clear that the economic impact of the contagion would be far greater than initially predicted."   The observations in this article were being written earlier,...

PH lifts travel ban on Taiwan

The Philippines on Friday lifted the travel ban on Taiwan effective immediately after it threatened to retaliate by revoking the visa-free entry privilege of...

Palace: Travel ban may expand to other countries

Presidential Spokesman Salvador Panelo said Thursday the Philippines was also open to impose a travel ban to other countries with confirmed cases of COVID-19. He...

Taiwan takes offense at PH travel ban, plans to strike back

The Taiwanese government is mulling over retaliatory measures against the Philippines after the Health department confirmed that the travel ban imposed amid the coronavirus disease...

An illogical move

The government’s sudden decision to include Taiwan in its China travel ban to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus has caused unnecessary disruption...

Taiwan travel ban leaves hundreds stranded at NAIA

Hundreds of Filipino travelers to Taiwan were stranded at the Ninoy Aquino International after major airlines started cancelling flights to and from Taipei in...
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