60 Japanese Nationals Nabbed for Working in Cebu Call Center Post Bail
Date Posted : September 16, 2015 | by PNA
The 60 Japanese nationals who were arrested Friday for working without permits in a call center in Cebu City have posted bail for their temporary liberty. Cebu City Municipal Trial...
Probably they are gangsters involved in ore ore phone scams.
Creative crooks stay one step ahead
BY MARK SCHREIBER
SPECIAL TO THE JAPAN TIMES
The “Ore, ore” (“It’s me”) fraudsters and their ilk, who telephone elderly people and pretend to be a relative in need of money to help them out of a...
Japan's Internship Training Program for Foreign Workers: Education or Exploitation?
Satoshi Kamata
Japan's Internship Training Program for Foreign Workers: Education or Exploitation?
Kamata Satoshi
Translated and edited by Nobuko Adachi
In 1993, when Japan still depended on foreign labor in...
60 Japanese arrested, lack alien work permits
1:20 AM | Saturday, September 12th, 2015
More than 60 Japanese nationals were arrested last night in a raid by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) 7 in a call center in IT Park in Lahug, Cebu City.
The company’s employees and officers...
Abad: Only 25% of ‘Yolanda’ foreign aid received
07:53 PM September 13th, 2015
Almost two years after Supertyphoon “Yolanda” (international name: Haiyan) flattened most of central Philippines, only less than a fourth of foreign aid pledges has been received by the national government, according...
China Lost World War II
Forget Beijing's victory parade: in 1945, China was a failed state.
BY SERGEY RADCHENKO
SEPTEMBER 3, 2015
On Sept. 3, China held a military parade — the 15th since its founding and the first to celebrate its victory over Japan in World War II. Highlighting Beijing’s...
Malaysia's Mahathir calls for 'people power' movement to topple PM Najib
By: Agence France-Presse
August 30, 2015 8:32 PM
KUALA LUMPUR - Former Malaysian leader Mahathir Mohamad, joining anti-government protesters for a second day on Sunday, called for a "people's power" movement to topple...
China Distorts History Ahead of World War II Commemoration
Aug 17, 2015|by Richard Sisk
China spent last week excoriating Japan for twisting the history of World War II while spreading distortions of its own on the 70th anniversary of the war's end.
Even China's Global Times, a tabloid owned...
China’s two-year intrusion into Sarawak waters
August 15, 2015
ALOR SETAR: Ships of China’s coast guard have been intruding into Malaysian waters off Sarawak for two years, a federal minister said today.
Shahidan Kassim said diplomatic notes had been sent each week in protest against the...
Madaming Chinese ang marunong mag-Filipino...pinakita na sa TV na merong school sila sa China na Filipino ang tinuturo. Ang mga pinagsusulat niya rito ay puro pro-Chinese at anti-Filipino. Isa siyang Tsino na nagkukunwaring Filipino.
Beijing distorting history on war: academics
By Bear Lee / CNA, with staff writer
Taiwan and China are staging a series of activities to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945).
Since its establishment in 1949 after winning the Chinese Civil War, the...
PHL rejects China’s call for it to drop arbitration case
July 23, 2015 2:38pm
The Philippines on Thursday rejected a Chinese ambassador’s call for Manila to drop its arbitration case against Beijing aimed at settling the territorial row between the two countries over resource-rich parts of the...
"A Chinese military forum is claiming that Malaysian warships 'ran away like scared dogs' when PLA-N warships turned on their fire control radars. The incident occurred near Beikang Ansha (China's name for Luconia Shoals) when a Chinese coast guard vessel guarding the shoal reported that it is...
Taiwanese fishing vessel caught in Balintang Channel was flying a Philippine flag.
By Arlene Lim | Jun. 12, 2015 at 07:59pm
Taiwanese fishing vessel caught in Balintang Channel was flying a Philippine flag. - Manila Standard Today
Taiwanese fishing boat intercepted near Batanes
Posted at...
2 alleged Taiwanese poachers arrested
By Evelyn Macairan (The Philippine Star) | Updated June 12, 2015 - 12:00am
MANILA, Philippines - Two Taiwanese were arrested at past midnight yesterday in a fishing boat near Balintang Channel off Batanes island on suspicion of poaching.
They were...
China now tussling with Malaysia in S China Sea
2015-06-05
A Chinese coast guard vessel has been accused of encroaching on Malaysia's territorial waters in the South China Sea.
Malaysia's Borneo Post reported Wednesday that a patrol boat of the China Coast Guard ha4 been detected encroaching...
Aquino wants to ensure China-led AIIB isn't prone to politics
June 3, 2015 4:42pm
President Benigno Aquino III on Wednesday said the Philippines is still studying a proposal to join the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).
In a briefing with Japanese reporters during his...
‘Chinese acting like Nazis’
June 3, 2015 11:33 pm
by CATHERINE S. VALENTE AND AFP
TOKYO: President Benigno Aquino 3rd on Wednesday likened present-day China to Nazi Germany during a speech in Japan, hinting the world cannot continue to appease Beijing as it claims ever-more territory in the...
Taiwanese, Indonesian poachers charged in court
May 14, 2015 7:58 pm
by LEANDER C. DOMINGO
TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan: The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) said on Thursday a criminal complaint for poaching in Batanes has been filed against two Taiwanese officers and four...