DJ Melot had been working as a Royal Bank accountant for a quarter century when she decided to strike out on her own.
"My mom said 'what are you doing? You can't even cook,' " said the Philippines native.
It's retained some of the familiar Joey's feel -- nautical nick-nacks, a luminous aquarium and fish and chips dishes.
A 27-year-old Overseas Filipino Worker from Singapore asked the help of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group and reported the alleged abuses she suffered during her ten-month stay in the said country where she claimed earning only 140 Singaporean dollars.
Rapunzel Sanoria Omandam, 27, married, a resident of barangay Samlog Lungsod in the town of Lupon Davao Oriental was accompanied by her older sister when she went to the police and reported that she was duped by an illegal recruiter back in Davao last year.
Omandam told the police that she was recruited by a barangay midwife of barangay Cocanon in their hometown identified as Marilyn Gogo who bragged about her sister who is working in Singapore as a domestic helper who can help her find an employer because she is directly connected to an agency based in Singapore.
She was promised to collect 320 Singaporean dollars per month minus the payment of the travel and document expenses the agency that would only take six months to pay as salary deductions. (The Philippine Star)
Philippine Phosphate Fertilizer Corp. will export P962 million worth of phosphate fertilizer to Brazil in the next two months, a company official said.
The shipment to Brazil will be about 20 percent of the company’s total exports this year, said Dennis Mate, executive vice president of Philphos. “Penetrating the Latin market is a big step because this is the first time that we’ll be exporting outside Asia, and we’re the only company in the Philippines to do so,” Mate told the Inquirer. (The Philippine Daily Inquirer)
Parents have pledged support for a gunman who took a busload of pre-school children hostage in the Philippine capital, Manila.
Armando Ducat said he took the action to draw attention to the impoverished conditions in which the children lived.
Prosecutors have filed charges of abduction and illegal possession of firearms against Ducat, and an accomplice Cesar Carbonell.
The police in Negros Oriental are verifying reports that some politicians or political candidates are “importing hired goons” from other parts of the country.
This, even as congressional candidate Olive Paras vehemently denied accusations that she and her camp had enlisted the help of “goons” who accompanied her in her sorties in the first district. (The Manila Times)
Three Philippine nationals were given a suspended sentence and fined after they admitted to importing cigarettes without paying relative duty and excise on them.
Vicente Redito Caracuel, 49, Redentor Cawas Dones, 29 and Adrian Cabal Caminos, 27, all from the Philippines, pleaded guilty to possessing and illegally importing different amounts of cigarettes on Tuesday, upon exiting from the gates at the Malta Freeport Terminal.
They were also charged with hiding the cigarettes in their cabins on board MV Caecilia Schulte, with the intent to defraud the government...(The Malta Independent Online) ...full story here
Sumitomo Metal Mining Co, Japan`s largest nickel producer, agreed with Manila-based Taganito Mining Corp. to conduct a joint study on building a $1 billion nickel smelting plant in the Philippines.
Sumitomo Metal Mining would set up a joint venture in 2008 to build a plant with annual production capacity of 30,000 t of nickel, if the study results are favourable, the company said in a statement to the Tokyo Stock Exchange ...(mining-journal.com) ...full story here
A rescue helicopter crew plucked an injured Filipino sailor from a ship passing through Cook Strait this afternoon. A piece of flying metal injured the crewman when a grinding machine broke down on board the bulk carrier, which is traveling between Australia and Brazil.
Westpac Rescue Helicopter staff say the 28-year-old suffered a cut to the abdomen. They winched him off the ship 8km from Wellington's South Coast and flew him to the city's hospital in a stable condition. (http://www.tv3.co.nz)
Six foreign nationals were apprehended in an operation conducted by the Law Enforcement Section, Depaituient of Immigration and National Registration. During the raid, five special passes were issued. The six people that were held comprised one male and one female Indonesian, two Filipinos and two male Bangladeshis.
Meanwhile, there is also a case at the deportation unit where a Filipino national is under investigation as her immigration pass has reportedly expired. (bruneidirect.com)
"I AM surviving." Three words which say so much from Filipina Pamela Belardo, who survived, but lost her husband in the Al Dana dhow disaster. The young widow is still coming to terms with the reality that she will spend the rest of her life without her husband, Norman.
Soon after the incident, 27-year-old Ms Belardo suffered a new tragedy, miscarrying what was to be their first and only child... (Gulf Daily News) ...full story here
