Matud pa ni Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert F. del Rosario, ubos sa crisis alert level 3, ipatuman ang voluntary repatriation diin abagahon sa gobyerno ang galastohon sa mga Pilipinong modesisyon nga mobiya na sa South Sudan ug mobalik na sa Pilipinas.

Sunod niini, ipatuman usab sa Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) ang deployment ban dungan sa pagtambag sa tanang mga Pilipino nga likayan na ang pagbiyahe sa maong nasud.

Gimando na sa DFA sa Philippine Embassy sa Cairo, nga maoy nagsakop sa South Sudan, aron ipatuman ang voluntary repatriation.

Gibanabanang adunay 150 ka Pilipino sa South Sudan nga kadaghanan mga overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) nga nagtrabaho sa mga construction company. (PIA-Bohol/ecb)

Ishinomaki City was among the most seriously affected by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. A tsunami about 10 meters high traveled 600 meters inland and destroyed around 80 percent of the 700 houses in the coastal whaling port of Ayukawa and the district of Kadonawaki.  According to a fact sheet, approximately 46 percent of the city was inundated by the tsunami.  One, elementary school, Okawa Elementary, was completely destroyed killing 74 of the 108 students and 10 of 13 teachers and staff.  The fact sheet also said that as of June 17, 2011, a total of 3,097 deaths have been confirmed in Ishinomaki City due to the tsunami, with some 2,770 unaccounted for. It added that approximately 29.000 city residents lost their homes.

President Aquino personally handed over the pledge of assistance to Mayor Kameyama in the presence of other officials of the city, namely, vice mayor Etsuro Kitamura, Ishinomaki City Council chairperson Hiroshima Abe, and Parliamentary senior vice minister for Foreign Affairs Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, and the Philippine delegation led by Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario, Transportation and Communications Secretary Mar Roxas, Presidential Communications Operations Office Secretary Sonny Coloma, and Energy Secretary Jose Rene Almendras among others.

The President pointed out that the actual cash will be given by the Philippine Embassy in Japan through Ambassador Manolo Lopez.

As he turned over the letter containing the pledge of assistance to the Ishinomaki official, the President reiterated his sympathy for the losses. (PCOO)

Sa pag-atubang sa House Appropriations Committee, miingong si Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario nga usa ka Pinoy ang naangol human makaagi sa lugar nga diha’y riot.

Giingong nihangyo kini nga dili na lamang ibutyag ang iyang pangalan aron dili maguol pa ang iyang pamilya sa Pilipinas.

Usa usab ka Pinoy ang nawad-an og sakyanan sa riot apan wala kini naunsa.  Samtang ang ika-tulong Pinoy, nga usa ka babae ang nagub-an sa iyang tindahan apan wala usab kini hilabti.

Matud pa ni Del Rosario, padayon ang pagmonitor sa Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) sa sitwasyon sa London dungan sa panawagan sa mga Pilipino didto nga mag-amping ug likayan una ang pag-adto sa mga lugar nga adunay kagubot.

Niadtong Sabado pa miulbo ang kagubot sa London nga nagsugod sa pakapatay sa mga pulis sa usa ka gidudahang drug dealer nga usa ka Afro-Carribean. (PIA-Bohol/ecb)

Tungod niini, andam na ang DFA ug ang Embahada sa Pilipinas sa mandatory evacuation sa
mga Pinoy nga gastuhan sa kagamhanan.

Gitahasan na ni Foreign Affairs Sec. Alberto del Rosario ang Embahada sa Pilipinas sa Riyadh
ug Philippine Consulate sa Jeddah nga maoy nasakop sa Yemen nga sugdan na ang pagbakwit
sa mga apektadong OFWs didto.

Usa ka 5-man team na ang gipadala sa Embahada aron moadto sa capital sa Yemen sa Sanaa
aron makig-alayon sa mga Pinoy communities alang sa repatriation program.

Aduna nay mga Pinoy nga nagpalista alang sa maong repatriation program.

Matud pa ni Philippine Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Ezzedin Tago nga gihulat na lamang nila ang
final confirmation sa mga nagpalista tungod kay posibleng nausab ang hunahuna sa uban nga
nagpalista na. (PIA-Bohol/ecb)

Target sa DFA nga himuon ang unang biyahe sa repatriation sa Abril 17 diin abagahon sa
gobyerno ang gasto sa repatriation, apil ang pletehan ug gasto sa travel documents.

“The Philippine Government will absorb the full cost of repatriation to the Philippines. Our
plan to repatriate will involve the chartering of aircraft which is being planned to originate from
Niigata airport located in northwest Japan. We are targeting the first repatriation flight to be
scheduled for Sunday, April 17,” pamahayag ni Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario.

Paningkamotan usab sa DFA ug embahada sa Pilipinas sa Tokyo nga ibakwit ang mga Pinoy
nga naa sulod sa 50-kilometer radius sa Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant.

Bisan pa niini, gi klaro usab ni Del Rosario nga dili pugson sa gob-yerno ang mga Pinoy nga
adunay pamilya sa Japan sa pagbakwit kun dili nila gusto.

Alang sa mga mag-desisyon nga magpabilin, mahimo usab silang i-relocate sa mga
relocation center nga naa sa Tokyo nga may gilay-on nga 250 kilometro gikan sa nuclear
power plant.

Apan matud pa ni Philippine Ambassador to Japan Manuel Lopez, kun dili tanan ang
modesisyon nga mobakwit, himuon pa gihapon sa embahada ang tanan nilang mahimo aron
makumbinsi ang tanan. (ecb/PIA-Bohol)

The President left Manila on Monday (Sept. 20) for his first foreign trip as the country’s Chief Executive.

In an interview upon his arrival in New York, the President said his attendance at the UNGA will give him the opportunity to meet with his counterparts “to be able to resolve a lot of issues and we can get better cooperation amongst the concerns, especially in ASEAN.”

Some 150 world leaders are attending the 65th UNGA.

The President also expressed hope that his proposed one-on-one meeting with President Barack Obama will push through.

According to the President, the proposed one-on-one meeting with Obama had yet to be confirmed. However, they will have a chance to meet when the US President meets the leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) during the 2nd US-ASEAN Leader’s Meeting.

The President will be the coordinator for the 2nd ASEAN-US Leaders meeting in New York as the Philippines is currently the Country Coordinator for ASEAN-US Dialogue relations for 2009-2012. (PCOO/PIA)

Philippine Ambassador to Oslo, Norway Elizabeth P. Buensuceso reported to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) that Filipinos living and working in Iceland reside far from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano which erupted last April 14.

The eruption sent a massive cloud of volcanic dust thousands of feet into the air which has spread from the United Kingdom to continental Europe.

Iceland is located in the North Atlantic Ocean. The Eyjafjallajokull volcano is located in southern Iceland.

Ambassador Buensuceso said the Philippine Embassy in Oslo is closely coordinating with Honorary Consul Priscilla Zanoria who is in touch with the Filipino Community in Iceland.

Meanwhile, the 12 Filipinos who were earlier stranded in Frankfurt, Germany are now in the UK after intercession by the Philippine Consulate General in Frankfurt.

Consulate officials immediately coordinated with the headquarters of the German Federal Police in Potsdam after it was alerted by the DFA about the stranded Filipino travellers at Frankfurt International Airport. The Filipino travelers were issued transit visas so they could fly to London. (PIA-Bohol)

Father Joseph Skelton is to be moved from his ministry in Central Tagbilaran city, to a still undisclosed place, an official of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference said Monday.

“The CBCP will issue an official statement on the matter within the next few days,” a spokesman for the conference who did not want to be named, told the AFP.

The website story on the website said the bishops only found out in November that Skelton was convicted of sexual misconduct when he was a seminarian in Detroit, Michigan, in 1988.

“Had I known of his conviction, I would not have ordained him,” the website quoted Tagbilaran’s former bishop, Leopoldo Tumulak, as saying.

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