From this Monday (12 January) Australians travelling to the United States of America will be required to follow new border entry procedures, the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade recently advised in a bulletin. All Australian passport-holders eligible to travel to the US under that country’s Visa Waiver Program must, before they travel, obtain […]

Senator Richard Gordon, former chairman of the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority, which now administers the port, said officials from around Europe and Asia had visited to study his model of base conversion, including the leaders of Panama, Vietnam and Lithuania and representatives from Guam and Okinawa, in Japan. In an interview, Mr. Gordon seemed as […]

One of our readers who made a trip to the United States wrote us about his pilfered baggage. Upon arrival at his destination in the U.S., he discovered that one of the compartments in his luggage was open. In it was an envelope containing a few hundred American dollars in cash. The combination padlock that […]

THE five Manila policemen accused of extorting money from a hotel chef and forcing him to eat shabu have been reassigned to Mindanao after serving their 90-day suspension, the Journal Group learned yesterday. The erring cops also face possible summary dismissal from the service.

OTTAWA—Tickets, check. Passports, check. Luggage, check. Baby? … Oops. A family boarded a flight on Monday in westernmost Canada, and forgot their tot at the Vancouver international airport, media said Tuesday. The 23-month-old boy’s family had just arrived in Canada from the Philippines, but they were forced to repack their overweight bags before catching a […]