As part of the Philippine Embassy’s priority to reach out to Filipinos in various sectors throughout New Zealand, promote their welfare and well-being as well recognize their vital roles and contributions to nation-building in the Philippines and New Zealand, Ambassador Virginia H. Benavidez acc...

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Posting an economic growth of 6.1 percent last year, the Philippines is no longer the “sick man of Asia,” the country’s chief economist said on Thursday.

“Overall, the Philippine economy’s performance in 2014 and the preceding years starting in 2010 shows how our country can no longer be called t...

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Key policy measures undertaken in the last year led to a significant improvement in Philippine society’s ability to allow its citizens to climb up the socioeconomic ladder on their own merits, a new international report showed.

Heritage Foundation, an American think tank, reported that the Philip...

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The Philippine Embassy Team and the Filipino community in New Zealand, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa and the Cook Islands, are one with the Filipino nation in paying respects to the members of the Philippine National Police Special Action Force (PNP-SAF) who died during an armed encounter in Maguindanao, Phil...

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As the Philippine Embassy continues its mobile consular services for the fifth year for Filipinos in New Zealand, Ambassador Virginia H. Benavidez led the Philippine Embassy Mobile Consular Team composed of Vice Consul Glenn Joseph Q. Obach, Ms. Ma. Victoria Reyes, Mr. Edgar Matibag, Ms. Mary Be...

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