The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has allowed travel agencies to continue offering passport processing services to applicants until June, extending their accreditation that was supposed to have expired on Jan. 1.
He may have been the highest paid in the Aquino Cabinet last year, but Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario just gave it all away, according to diplomatic officers.
The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) in Central Visayas is clueless on the fate of the Cebuano worker who remains missing three days after the oil rig accident in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana state in the United States.
Malacañang has been formally notified of the sexual molestation charge brought against Philippine Ambassador to Kuwait Shulan Primavera, but has yet to give the Department of Foreign Affairs the green light to proceed with a formal administrative investigation.
No more fast lane privileges for travel agencies to process passports for their clients.
The Department of Foreign Affairs-Office of Consular Affairs (DFA-OCA) said that passport applicants who were unable to file their applications Tuesday may have their passports processed until August 10, Friday.
The Department of Foreign Affairs has saved the national government P1.04 billion in operating funds with the relocation of 16 consular offices to shopping malls that exempted the agency from paying lease, electricity and water fees, Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Rafael Seguis said.
Malacañang has defended President Benigno Aquino III’s appointment of former Development Bank of the Philippines chairman Cesar Zalamea as special envoy to China on investments, Radyo Inquirer 990AM reported Friday morning.
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) should consider asking the Embassy of the Republic of Panama in Makati City to waive the diplomatic immunity of its citizen who was accused of raping a 19-year-old girl, Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said Thursday.
President Benigno Aquino III has appointed the country’s ambassador to Pakistan as the next foreign undersecretary for migrant affairs, Malacañang announced over the weekend.
The Department of Agriculture (DA) and the National Food Authority are considering increasing the government’s buying price for palay (unmilled rice) by 70 centavos up to P1, according to NFA Administrator Angelito Banayo.
Next month’s high-level talks between the Philippines and the United States on expanding Washington’s military presence in the country will push through as planned contrary to some reports, according to Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario.
Raul Hernandez, spokesperson of the Department of Foreign Affairs, on Tuesday said the issuance of an arrest warrant for Ma. Ramona “Mara” Bautista in connection with her brother Ramgen Bautista’s murder would prompt the DFA to cancel her passport or seek Interpol assistance to bring her back to the country.
