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Taiwan says COVID-19 'passports' would be a good idea

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 02 04:23 PM

COVID-19 "passports" to show peoples' inoculation and infection history will be hard to do in practice but are a good idea, Taiwan Health Minister Chen Shih-chung said on Wednesday, offering support to a means to get global travel going again. Read more »

Debate swirls on use of virus 'immunity passports'

Rob Lever, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 29 12:25 PM

Governments and organizations around the world are mulling the use of hotly-debated "immunity passports" aimed at easing pandemic-related lockdowns and restrictions on movements.  Read more »

Former Tonga PM found guilty of perjury in passports-for-sale scandal

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Mar 10 09:48 AM

Nuku'alofa, Tonga - Former Tonga prime minister Lord Tu'ivakano has been found guilty of perjury over a passports-for-sale scandal involving Chinese nationals in the Pacific island country. Read more »

Cyprus 'investment-for-passports' scheme a laundering risk - watchdog

Reuters
Posted at Feb 12 08:07 AM

ATHENS - A European money laundering watchdog has cautioned that a secretive investment-for-passports program run by Cyprus was vulnerable to money laundering and fraught with risk. Read more »

4 Chinese timbog sa paggamit ng mga pekeng pasaporte

Henry Atuelan, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 26 02:52 PM

Arestado ang 4 na Chinese sa Ninoy Aquino International Airport matapos magtangkang pumasok sa bansa gamit ang mga pekeng Paraguay passports. Read more »

Cayetano eyes production of 30,000 passports per day by yearend

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 04 06:21 PM

MANILA - Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano on Wednesday said the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) is expecting to produce 30,000 passports per day by the end of the year.   Read more »

Solon flags Indonesians with fake PH passports amid extremism threat

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 20 11:05 AM

A lawmaker on Wednesday raised concern on the alleged presence of Indonesian nationals with fake Philippine passports in Mindanao, where foreign fighters last year joined a 5-month attack on the southern city of Marawi.  Read more »

Lawmaker sounds alarm on foreigners with fake passports

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 18 10:35 PM

A lawmaker warns of possible terror threats as Maguindanao officials look into reports a number of foreign nationals have entered the country using fake passports. Read more »

DFA says over 70,000 passports approved via 'Passport on Wheels'

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 03 08:10 PM

The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Thursday said more than 70,000 passport applications have been processed and approved through its "Passport on Wheels" program. Read more »

Yasay blames printer for passport processing delays

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 07 03:08 PM

Former foreign affairs secretary Perfecto Yasay on Tuesday blamed the transfer of the printing of e-passports from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) to the APO Production Unit for the delay in processing of passport applications. Read more »

Pinay accused of passport fraud in Vegas

ABS-CBN North America News Bureau
Posted at Jan 19 01:38 PM

A 41-year-old Filipina is in police custody under suspicion of forging identification cards and passports in Las Vegas. Read more »