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Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) wishing to learn or upgrade their computer skills during their leisure hours will soon see their dream come true with a Philippines IT School expanding abroad.

At least 78 people died and 41 others were injured in a pre-dawn fire that ripped through a Philippines hotel that had no fire alarm system and lacked fire exits.

Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo yesterday assured Singaporean investors that the Philippines will not resort to "protectionism", as this would only discourage foreign investors needed to boost the economy and generate jobs for the Filipinos.

Philippines President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo labelled yesterday Abu Sayyaf the only major thorn in Mindanao for her government. She emphasised that her administration is bent on wiping out the fundamentalist group.

Reghis Romero II, the construction magnate abducted by members of the Abu Sayyaf from a beach resort in Palawan, denied before a Congressional inquiry yesterday, allegations that his family paid the bandits millions of pesos for his safety.

The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has announced that overseas Filipino workers facing charges for labour-related offences in their host-countries may soon be able to use the legal assistance fund for overseas Filipino workers (OFW).

Police yesterday filed charges of multiple homicide and multiple physical injuries against William Tan Genato, owner of the Quezon City Manor Hotel that was hit by the country's worst fire disaster in five years, claiming the lives of at least 80 people and injuring many others.

Philippine Immigration Commissioner Andrea Domingo yesterday said Manor Hotel owner William Tan Genato may have left the country.

Three suspected foreign terrorists implicated in bomb and arson attacks in Bangkok and London have been arrested by police and immigration agents here, following reports that they were to bomb the Vietnamese embassy in Manila this weekend.

Construction magnate Reghis Romero II, who was kidnapped by the extremist Abu Sayyaf, paid $98,039 (P5 million) for his release.

The Philippines' Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said 446 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Iran were injured and evacuated to Kish island after several Iranians reportedly attacked all the foreign workers at a construction project in Buscher province.

The board of the Philippines' San Miguel Corporation yesterday approved a 15-per cent buy-in of Japanese brewer Kirin, thereby diluting the government's control of the food and beverage giant and possibly reducing a 29 per cent block owned by coconut farmers.