MANILA, Philippines—Yemen has committed to ensure the safety of some 1,400 Filipino workers in the country. Foreign Minister Abu Bakr Qirbi made the assurance during a meeting with Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario in Sana’a, the Yemeni capital, on Saturday. The two diplomats discussed “issues of mutual concern” between the Philippines and Yemen. Del Rosario [...]
MANILA, Philippines—The deadly Good Friday landslide in a gold mining area in Pantukan town, Compostela Valley province, has moved a Catholic bishop to call for a moratorium on all mining operations until an efficient monitoring and control system has been put in place. The body count in the landslide that hit Sitio Panganason in Barangay [...]
TOKYO—Highly contaminated water is escaping a damaged reactor at the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Station in Japan and may soon leak into the ocean, the country’s nuclear regulator warned on Monday. The discovery raises the danger of further radiation leaks at the stricken power plant and also poses a further setback to efforts to [...]
