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Filipina cruise ship worker dies by suicide while awaiting repatriation
Sofia Tomacruz June 11, 2020 https://www.rappler.com/nation/263543-filipino-seafarer-dies-by-suicide-...

Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr says the 28-year-old Filipina died in her cabin in a cruise ship 'where she's had to stay because repatriation flights back to the Philippines have been suspended again'

Cabin steward becomes grill king to earn income amid quarantine
June 11, 2020 https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/lifestyle/hobbiesandactivities/742257/ca...

326 seafarers arrive from Manila
11 Jun 2020 | https://www.heraldgoa.in/Goa/326-seafarers-arrive-from-Manila/161705

VASCO: The 10th repatriation flight from Manila arrived with 326 stranded seafarers at Goa Airport on Wednesday morning.

All health and social distance protocols followed ensuring smooth arrival and exit.

If seafarers were tourists, crew changes would not be a problem
David Osler 10 Jun 2020 https://lloydslist.maritimeintelligence.informa.com/LL1132632/If-seafare...

Moratorium on seafarer recruitment short-term answer: ministry
11 June 2020 https://en.antaranews.com/news/150520/moratorium-on-seafarer-recruitment...

Jakarta (ANTARA) - A moratorium on the recruitment of Indonesian seafarers on foreign fishing ships would only serve as a short-term solution to the problem of forced labor at sea, a Foreign Ministry official said.

Covid-19 brings unique opportunity to reshape maritime as a more attractive career prospect
Sam Chambers June 8th, 2020 https://splash247.com/covid-19-brings-unique-opportunity-to-reshape-mari...

The working conditions created ashore by Covid-19 could serve as a springboard to making shipping a more attractive career opportunity, a virtual forum featuring 15 young shipping organisations was told on Friday.

UN Bodies Reiterate Calls for Facilitating Crew Changes, ‘Key Worker’ Designation
Mike Schuler June 10, 2020 https://gcaptain.com/un-bodies-reiterate-calls-for-facilitating-crew-cha...

The trade and maritime bodies of the United Nations are reiterating calls for governments to facilitate crew changes in order to keep trade flowing unimpeded.

ASEAN states should follow Indonesia, invoke Hague ruling vs China – Carpio
Sofia Tomacruz June 02, 2020

Retired Supreme Court Justice Antonio Carpio says raising the landmark ruling is the 'best and most effective' argument under international law to thwart China's encroachment of Southeast Asian states' waters

MANILA, Philippines – Retired Supreme Court associate justice Antonio Carpio urged Southeast Asian nations to invoke the 2016 Hague ruling against China’s claims in the South China Sea, as he lauded Indonesia’s recent move to do so.

The running seaman
Yashika F. Torib June 10, 2020 https://www.manilatimes.net/2020/06/10/business/maritime-business/the-ru...

Life at sea is hard. The physically and mentally draining tasks, social isolation and deadly sea-borne calamities literally place a seafarer’s foot on the grave. But life on shore, without a job, is equally fatal not just for the seafarer but for his family and all others on his long list of beneficiaries.

Marina opens ship-breaking, recycling opportunities
Genivi Factao June 10, 2020 https://www.manilatimes.net/2020/06/10/business/maritime-business/marina...

The Maritime Industry Authority (Marina) has set up a paid-up capital requirement of P25 million to P50 million for those interested to run ship-breaking and ship-recycling facilities that would support the government’s ship retirement and replacement program.