{"id":17577,"date":"2014-06-30T22:12:36","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T14:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=17577"},"modified":"2014-06-30T22:12:36","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T14:12:36","slug":"yemen-still-under-alert-level-2-says-dfa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/30\/yemen-still-under-alert-level-2-says-dfa\/","title":{"rendered":"Yemen still under alert level 2, says DFA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_15813\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15813\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/dfa-building1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15813\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/dfa-building1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Wikipedia Photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/dfa-building1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/dfa-building1.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15813\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wikipedia Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">MANILA \u2013- The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Monday reminded Filipinos that only those with existing work contracts in Yemen will be allowed to go back there as the Middle East state remains under the Philippine government\u2019s alert level 2 warning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Under Alert Level 2 or restriction phase, only Filipinos with existing labor contracts may return to Yemen, the DFA said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">\u201cThe deployment of newly-hired overseas Filipino workers remains suspended,\u201d it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Manila has banned travel and labor deployment to Yemen in December 2013 after seven Filipinos were killed in deadly attacks in the country\u2019s Defense Ministry complex by Al-Qaeda-linked terrorists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">The Philippine Embassy in Riyadh stressed that Yemen remains under Alert Level 2 \u201cin view of the current political and security situation in that country.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">The Philippine has no diplomatic presence in Yemen but its embassy in Saudi Arabia has jurisdiction over the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">\u201cAll Filipinos in Yemen are therefore advised to restrict non-essential movements and avoid public places.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Due to the volatile security situation in Yemen, Filipinos there are advised to update their registration with the embassy or contact the office of the Philippine Honorary Consul in Sana\u2019a.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">\u201cThe Philippine Embassy in Riyadh continues to monitor the situation in Yemen and will provide further advisories to the Filipino community as may be necessary,\u201d the DFA said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013- The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Monday reminded Filipinos that only those with existing work contracts in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":15813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[6163,204,2108],"class_list":["post-17577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-alert-level-2","tag-dfa","tag-yemen","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}