Manila, May 28 -- este organized a humanitarian flight to repatriate overseas Filipinos in Timor-Leste to support those "without work and with economic difficulties on account of the Covid-19 pandemic posing threat to the health of humankind."
The Philippine government-funded Pan Pacific Airlines Airbus A320 flight departed from Nicolau Lobato International Airport in Dili on May 25, 2020.
The humanitarian flight's passengers included 35 overseas Filipinos, four Japanese, 10 South Koreans, and an American citizen.
Other Filipino recipients of this humanitarian repatriation were tourists affected by cancelled flights when the "state of emergency" was declared in Timor-Leste; overseas Filipino senior citizens with underlying health problem...