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Experimental issue of electronic visas will be launched in Kyrgyzstan from July 1, Advisor to the Foreign Affairs Minister Erkin Asangulov said today at a briefing.

Humanitarian agencies say thousands of migrants from the Horn of Africa are living in harrowing conditions along the Yemen-Saudi Arabia border.

Concerning comments from the National Committee to Combat Human Trafficking undermine efforts to combat forced labor issues in the region; members of the Committee, including the Minister of Foreign Affairs and undersecretary of FNC Affairs, attempted to discredit the recent report in statements to the National and Gulf News using a number of problematic argument

MANILA - Overstaying Filipino workers in Saudi Arabia will be arrested and deported even during the three-month grace period given by the Saudi government for undocumented foreign workers to legalize their status.

The Philippines is asking the government of Saudi Arabia to waive some of the immigration penalties incurred by hundreds of Filipinos illegally staying in Jeddah, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said on Friday.

Philippine and Taiwanese officials on Friday signed a legal assistance pact that would bolster efforts against crime and protect the rights of both the Taiwanese in the Philippines as well as some 100,000 Filipinos in Taiwan.

Exposed to the searing desert sun, over a thousand undocumented Filipino workers, with limited food, water, and toilet facilities, are now huddling in tents outside the Philippine consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, hoping for a means to fly home before a crackdown by the Saudi government lands them in prison.

Philippine Labour Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz on Wednesday allayed fears that Filipino workers would no longer be welcome in Singapore after the city-state imposed limits on foreign workers.