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International Filipino singing sensation Charice Pempengco will kick off her "Infinity" world tour in Dubai in March.

The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said the six-year ban on the deployment of Filipino workers to Lebanon may soon be lifted after Philippine and Lebanese labor officials signed two "landmark agreements" on Thursday.

Jobs might be available for some 30,000 Filipinos in New Zealand as Christchurch recovers from a devastating magnitude-6.3 earthquake in February last year.

Passengers leaving for abroad through the Ninoy Aquino International Airport had one more reason to smile as the lowered terminal fee for international flights took effect Wednesday.

Rape, one of the worst human rights violations, happens everywhere. The World Health Organization said acts of violence against women “are major public health problems and violations of women's human rights.”

The Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has released a list of 25 countries with visa exemptions for Filipinos. These countries include most of the Philippines' Southeast Asian neighbors, but also Latin American tourist destinations Brazil, Peru, Bolivia and Costa Rica. 

One sorrow of binationalism is not only leaving a world behind you. It’s the burden of carrying an entire world inside of you, with no immediate way to put it down, or return. Food becomes the closest way of accessing this world.