MANILA – The Quezon City government has declared an outbreak of pertussis or whooping cough after logging 23 cases and four deaths, mostly infants 22 days to 60 days old from January to March 20. In a news release on Thursday, Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte said she has already ordered the City Health Department, City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, and all relevant city departments to beef up the awareness campaign, especially in the health centers, on how to prevent... Whoping cough/pertussis outbreak ..read more

I did some searching but not much luck. I am excited to find about and apply for the 13A visa. It would be great to have it. I am currently in the US with my filipina wife. I am applying for the 13A visa. I have not applied yet I am getting everything together. I have tried calling the nearest Philippine embassy many times over many weeks with no luck whatsoever. They never answer. I was going to email them but decided to post here first. I have most everything together but I can't... 13A (Non-Quota Immigrant Visa by Marriage ..read more

United States Embassy Manila, Philippines U.S. Consular Agency Cebu, Philippines  ​ Message for U.S. Citizens: Overseas Voting Workshop In cooperation with the Manila Elks Club, we are pleased to invite you to a presentation the afternoon of Friday, April 12, 2024, regarding voting in U.S. federal elections from the Philippines.​ Please attend! The event will be in-person and streamed via Zoom. For more information...​ Message for U.S. Citizens: Overseas Voting Workshop ..read more

Just a heads-up, now is the time to do your shopping especially if it revolves around frozen fish fillets or other foods special meat cuts or higher end breads, snacks, it's going to be a long busy week next week. Many visitors returning to the country also, so money will be thrown around like water, it's almost expected that a foreigner loves to give away their money, but that might not always be the case for some of us that are now retired here and no longer working living on a pension... Holy Week 2024 exodus be prepared and aware ..read more

Our plumber with his cohorts laid the floor tiles here, around 150M2 in the extensions, We supplied everything, all they did was install, their price to install was around P200 per M2 actually less as their bill/quote was P 27K, any way we have around 48/50M2 of wall tiles to be installed in the kitchen and 3 bathrooms. The floor tiler was not interested as apparently I am too fussy but happy to do the fit off. When he finished the floor tiling on his second attempt we paid him bye and got... Floor and wall tilers ..read more

19 June 2022 PRESS RELEASE PASAY, Philippines—Bureau of Immigration (BI) officials on Thursday, unveiled a commemorative marker in their new building along Macapagal Blvd. in Pasay City. The building, Morente said, is expected to be completed soon, and will serve as the Bureau’s new main office. And here's the Facebook posting today about this, the building construction started in 2018. PBI new building next... Philippine Bureau of Immigration (Main) new building in the works ..read more

Article below but if you're having troubles in creating a GCash account, for now try opening without an application, I don't think Google supports the GCash app anymore, so what I now have to do from the Philippines is search GCash online and I log in from there, you can also register a new account ect.. ----------------------------- ----------------------------- By TED CORDERO, GMA Integrated News Published March 19, 2024 12:16pm Ayala and Alibaba-backed mobile wallet GCash has... GCash expanding to 16 countries ..read more

I just purchased a low cost DVD player/burner USB for my laptop computer. Are you a human? www.newegg.com At first it could not play my DVD movies because it came set to Region 2 (Europe) After setting it to Region 1, it worked OK. A DVD player can only have it's region changed a few times. I think probably DVDs purchased in Philippines will be region 3 ..read more

U.S. Embassy Manila, Philippines  U.S. Consular Agency Cebu, Philippines  March 21, 2024 ​   Message for U.S. Citizens:  Remote Services in Angeles City on April 26, 2024 U.S. Embassy Manila’s American Citizens Services (ACS) Unit will host a remote services event inAngeles City, Pampanga, Philippines on April26, 2024, to provide services to U.S. Citizens, including: Notarial services, Acceptance of Consular Report of Birth... US Embassy citizens services outreach in Angeles City on April 26, 2024 ..read more

I'm wondering if anyone has any first hand knowledge regarding paternity tests in the Philippines. To make a long story short, a friend of mine met a local lady back in 2007, or so. Of course the two of them engaged in a short term romantic relationship, but then she departed back to her home province within a few weeks ago. Fast forward to the present, now my friend has received a telephone call from an attorney informing him that he must either begin paying the educational expenses of a... Court Ordered Paternity Test ..read more