15 Taiwanese face raps for hurting OFWs

Fifteen Taiwanese, mostly teenagers, will face charges of physical injuries for hurting overseas Filipino workers (OFWs).

Fifteen Taiwanese, mostly teenagers, will face charges of physical injuries for hurting overseas Filipino workers (OFWs).

Tensions between Filipinos and Taiwanese citizens have eased a bit in Taiwan after Philippine and Taiwanese officials made assurances their safety is being given special attention.

Some Filipinos affected by the massive tornado that hit a state in Oklahoma are coping with the difficulties brought about by the recent disaster.

It was like a scene from the movie “Twister” — a 2-mile-wide howling tornado ripping through and leveling a suburb– only this time it’s for real.

Growing up in the fringes of the Dipolog city airport, Theodore Karl Quijano was bitten early by the lure of flight and that has taken him all the way to Colorado, where he graduates next week from the US Air Force Academy.

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) and Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) must explain the low overseas absentee voting turnout, Sen. Franklin Drilon said yesterday.

The World Health Organization has praised Thailand for the world’s best governance for medicine, Thai News Agency reported.

Twenty-three people have been confirmed dead and 10 others remain missing after a blast ripped through an explosives manufacturing plant in east China’s Shandong Province on Monday.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will pay an official visit to Thailand from May 30 to 31 as guest of the Thai government, the Thai Foreign Ministry announced here Wednesday.

Monday’s clash between Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) army and the M23 rebels in North-Kivu Province left at least 19 dead and 27 others injured, the government official said on Tuesday.
