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ABS-CBN apologizes for inaccurate reporting of job opportunities in Canada

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Photo: Windsor Star Philippines Migrante Ontario took issue with ‘rosy’ report on mushroom farming By Ted Alcuitas Following a complaint by the migrant’s group, Migrante Ontario, ABS-CBN News issued an apology yesterday (April 14) acknowledging that there were “lapses” in the report. A report that aired on “TV Patrol” and carried on the ABS-CBN News website […]

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Philippine Embassy issues warning on alleged work

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Renzi Cacnio from Malabon City works as a mushroom picker in Ontario, Canada. ABS-CBN News Ottawa ADVISORY ON ALLEGED JOB OPPORTUNITIES IN CANADA AS MUSHROOM PICKERS

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FBI investigates Quiboloy church in Hawaii for trafficking

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In better times – President Rodrigo Duterte and Quiboloy shares a laugh before the falling out.(Rappler photo) ‘Son of God’ is Duterte’s biggest supporter By Ted Alcuitas The FBI is investigating the local chapter of Apollo Quiboloy’s controversial church for aggressive fundraising in Hawaii and possible human trafficking, The Inquirer reports quoting  a Hawaii news

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Philippine Holy Week rituals: EJK infects performance

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Vicente Rafael shared Ezra Acayan‘s post. 7 hrs · Ezra Acayan photographs and reports on Good Friday in Navotas, land of many extra-judicial killings. Here, you can see how Hollywood and the aesthetics of EJK’s have inflected the performances of devotion into extreme rituals of bloody abjection. “No. This is not your favourite horror slasher

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Migration: Philippines sends its women abroad

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Overseas Filipino workers say their goodbyes to their loved ones before leaving for another country to work. ABS-CBN News file photo ABS/CBN Rina Chandran, Thomson Reuters Foundation Posted at Mar 30 2018 09:17 AM PAMANTINGAN – When the rains failed in 2015 and drought gripped southern Mindanao in the Philippines, Corazon Vegafria knew what she

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Holy Thursday: Cardinal Tagle washes feet of priest kidnapped by rebels

Philippine News, Religion

Philippines Father Teresito Soganub, who had been held captive for months in Marawi, Philippines, cries as Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila washes his feet during the Mass of the Lord’s Supper March 29 in Manila. Father Soganub is vicar general of the prelature of Marawi. (CNS/Roy Lagarde, courtesy CBCPNews) Mar 29, 2018 by Catholic

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Pasalamat: Crisanta Sampang is back

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The couple Crisanta Sampang and Daniel  Wood expresses thanks for the support. (GoFundMe photo) Vancouver, B.C. Daniel Wood sent email of thanks today:   Friends:   Almost a month ago Crisanta and I found ourselves caught in a  terrible Catch-22.  Her heart attacked required open-heart  surgery in the Philippines, where she’d been briefly visiting. But

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HK Filipinos took to streets to protest recall of labour attache

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Hundreds gather to protest recall of popular labour attache. (HK PINOY TV)   Philippines Attache was recalled abruptly By Ted Alcuitas The recalll of a popular labour attache in Hong Kong has prompted a demonstration by Filipino workers against the move by the Philippine government. Jalilo Dela Torre was taken by surprise on Friday (March

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Who is afraid of the International Criminal Court?

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ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda announces decision on February 8, 2018 to look into Philippine situation. (ICC photo)   Philippines Global human rights icon calls Duterte’s action ‘nonsense’ Opinion By Ted Alcuitas A world-renown human rights advocate has waded into the controversy on the ICC investigation of President Rodrigo Duterte’s ‘war on drugs.’ “Legally what Duterte

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Erwin Espinosa (left) and Cebu's Peter Lim are free. (ABS/CBN composite)

Breaking: Drug lords free – 7,000 addicts dead!

Philippine News, Politics

Erwin Espinosa (left) and Cebu’s Peter Lim are free. (ABS/CBN composite) Kerwin Espinosa, Peter Lim, 20 others cleared of drug charges ABS-CBN News Posted at Mar 12 2018 04:21 PM MANILA – The Department of Justice has cleared alleged drug lords Kerwin Espinosa, Peter Lim and 20 others of charges related to the narcotics trade

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