Filipino Expats Blog in Thailand

The Embassy would like to provide the following updates on the 10 May 2010 National Elections:

•    For registered overseas absentee voters who have received their electoral mails, you may send your officials ballots back to the Embassy ahead of the voting period which is from 10 April 2010 to 10 May 2010. Once received by the Embassy, your ballots will not be opened but kept in a ballot receptacle for counting on 10 May 2010, 6 pm, Philippine time.

•    Please disregard the statement in the Instructions to Voters for Postal voting which states that “Failure to affix your thumbmark in the ballot coupon” would be a ground for invalidating the ballot. What will invalidate the ballot is the absence of the voter’s signature in the “Official Ballot Envelope.”

•    The following registered voters may pick-up their official ballots from the Embassy, anytime from Monday to Friday, between 9 am and 12 noon and from 1 to 5 pm:
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By EDITH REGALADO
The Philippine Star

BANGKOK – Fewer Filipinos are now working here as musicians or entertainers, and more are coming in as health workers, according to Philippine ambassador Antonio Rodriguez.

“Filipino musicians have always been and still continue to be a come-on, especially in the different hotel lounges and music bars here. But there has recently been fewer of them who come here to perform,” Rodriguez said.

Rodriguez did not cite figures but he attributed the decline to less attractive remuneration and to cost-cutting measures by many entertainment establishments, which now prefer lower-paid local talents.
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Photo taken during the UFT Philippine Independence day held at Philippine Embassy Bangkok. More photos inside this article.

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