Filipino Domestic Workers Busted in Immigration Crackdown, From Bike Grounds to BBQ Kitchens
Hong Kong immigration authorities arrested 21 people, including 14 suspected illegal workers and seven employers, in an eight-day operation targeting foreign domestic helpers who allegedly violated their work conditions. The Immigration Department, known as ImmD, launched "Operation Swordfish" from Nov. 4 to 11, raiding 47 locations across the city, including restaurants, coffee shops, retail shops, barbecue sites, activity venues, employment...
Filipino Teen Hero Granted Full Scholarship After Rescuing 50 in Typhoon Floods
CEBU CITY, Philippines — A 15-year-old boy hailed as a hero for saving nearly 50 neighbors from raging floodwaters during Typhoon Tino has received a full college scholarship, complete with a monthly allowance, in a gesture of community gratitude. Jayboy Magdadaro, from Sitio Fatima in Jubay, Liloan, a town north of Cebu City, used a small wooden boat and life...
Philippine Officials Visit Detained Filipino Workers in Hong Kong Prison, Pledge Post-Release Aid
HONG KONG — Philippine consular and government officials, led by the Department of Migrant Workers Secretary Hans Leo Cacdac and ConGen Romulo Victor Israel Jr., visited Filipina inmates at Hong Kong's Lo Wu Correctional Institution on Saturday, 8 Nov. 2025. The delegation, which include OWWA Administrator Py Caunan, Vice Consul George Soriano, Hon. Rep. Bryan Revilla of the AGIMAT Party...
Typhoon Uwan Strengthens, Triggers Warnings Across Philippines as Landfall Looms
MANILA — Typhoon Uwan barreled into the Philippines' area of responsibility late Friday, prompting weather officials to raise the lowest-level wind signal over dozens of provinces and islands while forecasting a potential super typhoon strike on northern Luzon by early next week. The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration, or PAGASA, said in its 11 p.m. Friday bulletin that...
Severe Tropical Storm Uwan (Fung-wong) to Enter PAR Tonight, Rapid Escalation to Super Typhoon Forecast
Severe Tropical Storm Fung-wong intensified further Friday as it churned over the Philippine Sea northeast of Palau, prompting warnings of rapid strengthening into a super typhoon and potential landfall in northern Philippines early next week, the state weather bureau said. The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) said in its 11 a.m. bulletin that the storm's center was...
Marcos declares national calamity as Typhoon Tino deaths reach 114, incoming super typhoon Uwan
MANILA — President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. on Thursday declared a state of national calamity after Typhoon Tino killed at least 114 people and displaced thousands across the Visayas and Mindanao, while bracing the country for a potential super typhoon Uwan (international name Fung-Wong) expected to strike Luzon early next week. The declaration, approved following a briefing at Camp Aguinaldo...
Typhoon Kalmaegi (Tino) Leaves at Least 66 Dead in Philippines, Civil Defense Office
CEBU, Philippines — Typhoon Kalmaegi (Tino in Philippines) killed at least 66 people across the Philippines, the national civil defense office said Wednesday, as residents in flooded urban centers began sifting through mud-caked homes and wrecked businesses. “It was the major cities that got hit (with floods), highly urbanized areas,” Rafaelito Alejandro, deputy administrator of the Office of Civil Defense,...
Typhoon Tino Maintains Strength as It Crosses Northern Palawan; Signal No. 4 Hoisted in Several Areas
Typhoon Tino, internationally known as Kalmaegi, held its intensity early Wednesday while traversing northern Palawan, prompting the highest storm alert in parts of the province and warnings of destructive winds, heavy rain and potential storm surges, the state weather bureau said. The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) estimated the typhoon’s center over the coastal waters of Linapacan,...
Typhoon Tino (Kalmaegi) Kills at Least 3, Forces Hundreds of Thousands to Flee in Central Philippines
At least three people were killed and nearly 400,000 others evacuated as Typhoon Kalmaegi (Philippine name Tino) unleashed devastating floods across the central Philippines, submerging entire towns and sweeping vehicles and shipping containers through streets, the country's disaster agency said Tuesday. The storm, known locally as Tino, made landfall early Tuesday and weakened as it tracked across the Visayas region,...
Typhoon Tino Downs 5 Major Transmission Lines in Visayas and Mindanao, Causing Widespread Blackouts
MANILA — Typhoon Tino (Kalmaegi) knocked out five major transmission lines across the Visayas and Mindanao on Tuesday, plunging electric cooperatives serving thousands of customers into darkness as the storm raged westward, the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines reported. The outages affected the Maasin-Baybay 69kV line, which supplies the Leyte IV Electric Cooperative (LEYECO IV); the Ormoc-San Isidro 69kV...
