AT LEAST 115 Filipinos in Sri Lanka, where the people are rioting amid a crippling political and economic crisis, are seeking to come home, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said on Wednesday.
There are about 700 Filipinos in the South Asian country that is home to more than 20 million people, DFA Undersecretary Eduardo De Vega told a televised news briefing.
The country is in talks with the International Monetary Fund for a bailout, and has borrowed from India and other Asian nations to make ends meet this year.
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