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Philippines Monday said one Filipina house worker has been admitted to hospital in the Saudi southwestern city of Jizan after her employer allegedly forced her to drink bleach. Philippines foreign ministry identified the house worker as Agnes Mancilla. She was Read more
Kuwait Tuesday announced the recruitment of Ethiopian maids to replace Filipina house workers after Philippines’ authorities banned their nationals from working in the Gulf country following reports of abuses and the assassination of 29-year-old Joanna Demafelis. She was found in Read more
Manila has announced the arrest of one of the two suspects believed behind the death of a Filipina maid, put in a freezer a year ago in an abandoned apartment in Kuwait. The suspect named Nader Essam Assaf, from Lebanon, Read more
Philippines authorities have announced they are looking to repatriate all their nationals living illegally in Kuwait, which has extended amnesty for residency violators. The ambassador of the Asian country to Kuwait told Kuwait Times that the mission has been receiving Read more
President Rodrigo Duterte of Philippines will be visiting Kuwait early March at the invitation of the Kuwaiti ruler to defuse the diplomatic tension, which emerged over Manila’s concerns about the situation of Filipino workers in the Gulf country. Duterte accepted Read more
Kuwait’s foreign minister Tuesday vehemently condemned orders from President Rodrigo Duterte of Philippines to ban the sending of Filipino workers to the Gulf country after the alleged death of a Filipino woman in a fridge. President Duterte not only expanded Read more
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte Thursday floated a possible ban on the export of house workers to Kuwait arguing that his country will no longer stand aside and watch Filipino women commit suicide because of abuses they endure during their work Read more
Japanese newspaper “Nikkan-Gendai” has published shocking revelations on the 2013 In Amenas terrorist attack in Algeria, accusing Algerian forces of shooting hostages, while government reports had said the hostages were killed by terrorists in revenge operation. The In Amenas gas Read more