Philippines

LOS ANGELES — It was a reunion forty years in the making but cut short by the pandemic. Nanay Fedelina’s family — which includes her sister Eunila, Eunila’s daughter Luz and granddaughter Tiny — finally reconnected...

The battle against the novel coronavirus continues all over the world, in at least 196 countries and territories. As of March 26, confirmed cases have risen to almost 500,000. More than 22,000 people have died, while...

NEW YORK — It’s been a week the Philippine Consulate General in New York went on mandatory lockdown after an employee tested positive for COVID 19 — no other employee there has tested positive since. The...

444 Filipino crew members and six passengers from the Grand Princess, the coronavirus-stricken cruise ship that was docked in Port of Oakland, have arrived safely in the Philippines on March 15th. Prior to their disembarkation, Filipino...

SAN FRANCISCO — After a week of being stranded inside the Grand Princess cruise ship due to reported cases of coronavirus, it was time to go back to the Philippines for most of its Filipino crew...

OAKLAND, CA — Grand Princess, the cruise ship that carried 19 crew members and two passengers who tested positive for COVID-19, has been anchored at the port of Oakland since Monday. The final passengers disembarked last Thursday...

With the number of COVID-19 cases growing worldwide, the province of Manitoba announced its first confirmed “presumptive positive” case Thursday — a woman who recently traveled from the Philippines. “The woman is in her 40s from...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte imposed a halt on domestic land, sea and air travel to and from Metro Manila, beginning March 15, to combat the spread of the deadly coronavirus. The chief executive on Thursday raised...

The Philippines reported the first Filipino national to die of COVID 19 infection. The country’s health department says the patient was a 67-year-old Filipino woman confined at Manila Doctors’ hospital. The agency confirms she got the...

LOS ANGELES — They’re calling it both a miracle and happy ending. After six decades of enduring human trafficking and modern-day slavery in the hands of her US-based Filipino employers, and being kept from seeing her...