Immigration shot up in Germany last year to its highest level in 16 years as people from crisis-stricken countries like Greece and Spain flocked from Europe’s peripheries to its economic power center, data showed on Wednesday.

Remittances from Overseas Filipino Workers coursed through banks rose in March 2012 by five percent year-on-year to reach $1.7 billion, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Governor Amando Tetangco, Jr. said in a BSP press release yesterday.

At least six Malaysia-bound Filipinas were rescued from a suspected human trafficking ring after authorities intercepted their vessel off Palawan province.

Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) sent $1.7 billion in remittances to the Philippines in March, a 5% increase from year-ago figures, according to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP).

Filipino film “Amok” won a special prize at the 14th International Detective Film Festival in Moscow, Russia held from April 25 to 29.

Suspected drug gang hitmen dumped more than 40 mutilated bodies, stuffed in bags, on a highway outside the northern industrial city of Monterrey on Sunday.

Andrew I-Jen Chen swapped a career crunching numbers at French bank BNP Paribas to take up an apprenticeship at one of Switzerland’s most prestigious watchmaking schools.

Starting Monday, applicants for immigrant visas to the United States (US) will have to pay new rates for medical examinations, the US Embassy in Manila said.

Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Jesse M. Robredo is urging all Filipinos to support one another, more particularly the overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), as they face challenges worldwide in supporting their families back home.

CDC Holdings Inc. of Elsie Chua is banking on continuing overseas employment from where majority of buyers of her three new projects would come.