MANILA -- Employees of the Philippine Postal Corporation led by their unions the PhilPost Rank-and-File Employees Association (Prafea) and the PhilPost Workers Union (PWU) held a solidarity run from the Liwasang Bonifacio on May 8 to further highlight what they said was the worsening corruption in PhilPost.

When they arrived at the foot of Chino Roces (formerly Mendiola) bridge, they had a picnic lunch of dried fish, tomatoes and rice in front of the Peace Arch.

CHICAGO (jGLi) – Starting April 1, a Philippine-born female American will be breaking the glass ceiling of sorts when she takes over the helm of the world’s biggest food company as its executive vice president and chief financial officer.

Wan Ling Martello will take over as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Nestle S.A.(NESN), the world’s biggest food company, at its headquarters in Veyvey, Switzerland.

Ms. Martello, 53, succeeds Jim Singh, who retired at 65 years old after working for 35 years in Nestle and had held the position as CFO since 2008.

Lome, TOGO --  Sea pirates hijacked a Cyprus-flagged and Norwegian-managed tanker with 14 Filipino seafarers onboard MT Mattheos last Wednesday, Sept. 14.

The Spanish owners of tanker MT Mattheos are hoping pirates just want to steal the crude, rather than hold the 23-member crew hostage for ransom.

Consultores de Navegacion spokeswoman Sheena Campbell said Thursday that the company had not heard from the ship since it was hijacked Wednesday. “The normal case is that the only thing they are interested in is robbing the boat”.

NEW SOUTH WALES (June 7) -- After waiting for 20 years, a Rizal Park in Australia, situated in 2.2-hectare property in the city of Campbelltown, New South Wales, will be developed, Consul General Eva G. Betita announced.

In a report report to Secretary of Foreign Affairs Alberto G. Romulo, Betita said the property used be an empty reserve owned by the city government that was being preserved for future use.

CHICAGO (jGLi) – In 2007, Cindy Rubio was well aware of Carmelita Pasamba’s dire financial predicament and her inability to pay her bills. Pasamba told Ms. Rubio, her skilled nurse supervisor at St. Joseph Hospital, that her husband, Edgardo Pasamba, an unemployed and on a disability for a job-related incident, had filed for bankruptcy.

Meanwhile, in or around that time, Pasamba “cried because she did not have enough money to pay for her car insurance.Out of pity, Ms. Rubio gave Pasamba “$250 so she could pay for her car insurance.”

MANILA -- The global alliance of overseas Filipinos and families Migrante International expressed strong condemnation against what it said was the South Korean government’s illegal deportation, political harassment and manhandling of overseas Filipino worker (OFW) and union leader Michel Catuira last April 30.

Catuira is the current president of the Seoul-Gyeonggi-Incheon Migrants Trade Union (MTU). He has been active in the movement for migrants’ and human and labor rights in South Korea since 2007, and has served as president of the MTU since 2008. MTU is a union founded for and by migrant workers in South Korea in 2005.

ITALY -- Remove your middle name.

This is what the authorities of Italy’s Ministry of Interior or the Ministero dell’Interno, have been telling Filipinos in Italy since the agency laid down its Circular No. 29 on October 7, 2010. The labor ministry has since been ordering ordering Filipinos living and working in Italy to “drop their middle names’ in official documents to avoid confusion in the use of middle names.”

Italians do not have middle names.

MANILA–SOME 35 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) boarded the chartered boat by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) that will take them out of tension-gripped Libya, the Dept. of Foreign Affairs reported.

Foreign Affairs spokesman Raul Hernandez said August 25 the boat picked up foreign workers, including Filipinos, from the port of Tripoli to take them to the city of Benghazi–an area being controlled by pro-democracy groups.