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OWWA loses P70 million in pre-departure loans
2008-05-05 00:32:00 MANILA, Philippines - The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) incurred an estimated P70 million losses in pre-departure loans extended to Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs). Labor Secretary Marianito Roque said this is the reason that OWWA decided to suspend the pre-departure loans due to non-payments. According to Roque, OWWA allocated P100 million for the pre-departure loans program; however, ... More About: Loans , Million , Departure
OWWA incurs P70M loss; pre-departure loans for OFWs suspended
2008-05-04 08:16:00 MANILA, Philippines - The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) incurred losses of about P70 million in pre-departure loans extended to overseas Filipino workers (OFWs). Labor Secretary Marianito Roque on Sunday said he decided to suspend the said OWWA assistance after the OFWs failed to pay their loans. ?I decided to suspend it kasi nga puro utang ... More About: Loans , Loss , Departure
RP gov?t assures overseas workers of more flights to the Middle East
2008-05-04 08:15:00 MANILA, Philippines - The Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) has assured local recruitment companies that it will provide additional flights in the next two months to overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) bound for the Middle East . The assurance came amid the government’s move to address shortage in airline seats for Filipino passengers going to the said region. ... More About: Workers , The Middle East , Flights
11 maltreated Pinoy fishermen in N Ireland return home
2008-05-04 08:14:00 MANILA, Philippines - Eleven fishermen who were reportedly maltreated in Northern Ireland arrived in the country Sunday. The fishermen arrived at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) on board Cathay Pacific Airlines flight CX 907 via Hong Kong. The fishermen were identified as Rando Oto, Basilio Castro, Joselito Alcain, Paul Aranda, Mario Yumol, Jonathan Lachica, Filomar Orquillano, ... More About: Home , Pinoy , Iceland , Return
RP envoy to South Korea underscores people-to-people relations, OFW protect
2008-05-04 00:59:00 RP envoy to South Korea underscores people-to-people relations, OFW protection AMBASSADOR Luis T. Cruz lauds the unique people-to-people relationship between South Korea and the Philippines as he underscored the need to preserve and strengthen the special ties between the two countries. In an exclusive interview with The Seoul Times dated May 2 on the occasion ... More About: People , Relations
Finland welcomes RP nurses, other health workers
2008-05-04 00:58:00 Finland welcomes RP nurses, other health workers THE Finnish government welcomes the proposal of the Philippine government for the possible deployment of more Filipino nurses and other healthcare professionals to work in Finland. Maria Zeneida A. Collinson, Philippine ambassador to Sweden, reported to the Department of Foreign Affairs that discussions held on the Philippine readiness to ... More About: Health , Finland , Workers , Nurses
Agency with a heart trains, deploys aviation workers
2008-05-04 00:45:00 Agency with a heart trains, deploys aviation workers VENUS International Placement Agency, Inc. is the only recruitment agency in the country that helped establish an aviation training school known as the Philippine International School of Aviation Sciences (PISAS). These two entities remain distinct from each other, though. Venus operates as a regular recruitment agency, while the ... More About: Workers , Agency , Heart , Trains
Diplomat elected to int?l labor migrants body
2008-05-04 00:44:00 Diplomat elected to int?l labor migrants body AMBASSADOR to Canada Jose Brillantes was elected as vice-chairperson of the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (CPRMW) during a public meeting to elect a new bureau from among its members, in Geneva on April 15. This was ... More About: Body , Labor , Diplomat
Migrante presses govt for eco relief, repatriation
2008-05-04 00:43:00 Migrante presses govt for eco relief, repatriation MIGRANTE, the militant migrant workers alliance, pressed the Arroyo government to provide overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and their families? immediate economic relief from the food and oil crisis in the country, the global economic slowdown and the plunging power of the dollar. The government should move to ... More About: Relief , Govt
Villar bats for P1-B fund to bring home OFWs in distress
2008-05-04 00:41:00 SENATE President Manny Villar is pushing for the establishment of a P1-billion fund to provide for the early repatriation and adequate assistance to Filipinos in distress overseas. ?While there may be comprehensive set of laws protecting the overseas workers, its implementation in reality remains wanting. In particular, the funding requirement needed to effect a meaningful ... More About: Home , Bats , Fund
UAE employer faces trial for beating up Pinay maids - report
2008-05-03 10:34:00 An employer in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates is facing trial for allegedly beating up his two Filipino maids, and for failure to pay their salaries. Online news site Khaleej Times on Saturday reported that the Philippine consulate general had requested the Fujairah ruler to expedite the investigation and hearing of the cases of the two Filipinos. ... More About: Faces , Report , Pinay , Trial , Employer
Peacekeepers are OFWs in uniform
2008-04-30 23:41:00 They could very well be called ?uniformed? overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), referring to the hundreds of policemen deployed as UN peacekeepers around the world. They leave their families at home for a normally one-year tour of duty, endure homesickness, and risk their lives for a mission. Some of them said their goal is simple?to return ... More About: Uniform
Groups push for maids? dayoff
2008-04-30 23:40:00 SINGAPORE: Advocacy groups in Singapore have joined forces to launch on Thursday a call for foreign maids to get a regular dayoff. Singapore in 2006 ruled out giving domestic helpers mandatory rest days, saying it would be inconvenient. In a joint statement, the advocacy groups said about 170,000 migrant women work as maids in Singapore ... More About: Groups , Push
Govt workers get pay hike
2008-04-30 23:39:00 Private sector employees not so lucky, as wage boards ask for time CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Misamis Oriental: President Gloria Arroyo is expected to sign an executive order that will grant a 10-percent increase in the salaries of the country?s more than one million state workers, Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita announced Wednesday. Ermita said President Arroyo ... More About: Workers , Hike , Govt
OWWA berated for overcharging OFWs in 2007
2008-04-30 14:47:00 MANILA, Philippines - The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) on Wednesday got a tongue-lashing from a senior member of the House of Representatives for allegedly overcharging Filipino migrants on OWWA membership fee. During the public hearing of the House Committee on Overseas Filipino, Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman scored OWWA, represented in the hearing by lawyer Venus ...
189 OFWs arrive home from Middle East
2008-04-30 14:47:00 MANILA , Philippines - A total of 189 overseas Filipino workers from different parts of the Middle East were repatriated to the Philippines on Wednesday, Foreign Affairs spokesperson Claro Cristobal confirmed to GMANews.TV in a text message. Out of the 189, about 61 came from Riyadh; seven from Manama, Bahrain; 10 from Abu Dhabi; 61 from ... More About: Home
10,000 OFWs in CNMI to benefit as US House OKs immigration bill
2008-04-30 10:46:00 CAPITAL HILL, Saipan - The US House of Representatives passed on Tuesday in Washington, DC (Wednesday morning in Manila) an omnibus bill applying federal immigration law in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) which is seen to improve the immigration status of about 10,000 overseas Filipinos workers (OFWs) there. Majority of the House ... More About: Immigration , Bill , Benefit
Budget department warns OFWs vs text scam
2008-04-30 00:14:00 MANILA, Philippines - The Department of Budget and Management on Tuesday warned overseas Filipino workers and their families against a promotional scam through text messaging. Lucy Castro emailed GMANews.TV about a text message she received indicating that she won $40,000 in the electronics raffle draw ?Pangkabuhayan 2008 para sa Kababayang OFW/OCW.” Castro said the message was allegedly ... More About: Text , Scam
Balikbayan nabbed for illegal recruitment
2008-04-30 00:13:00 MANILA, Philippines - A convicted illegal recruiter who managed to slip out of the country was arrested Monday by elements of National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) at the airport when she returned to the country, according to GMA’s 24 Oras Tuesday. During the media presentation at the NBI office Tuesday, illegal recruiter Coney Bernaldez come face ... More About: Recruitment , Illegal
Child porn from RP seized from ex-US math teacher
2008-04-30 00:12:00 SAN FRANCISCO - A former Math teacher lost his bid on Monday to protect his laptop computer ? allegedly containing child pornography taken in the Philippines ? from being searched at an airport. The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit rejected Michael Timothy Arnold?s claim that the US Customs and Border Patrol of ... More About: Child , Teacher
Pinay tagged as mastermind in $30-M bank scam
2008-04-29 12:07:00 CHICAGO, Illinois– A former US Air Force enlisted man who was sentenced to 41 months in prison in connection with a $30-million scheme to defraud a US-based bank, tagged a Filipina as the mastermind of the scheme. Daniel Curran, 53, who was sentenced last April 23 by the US District Court of Columbia said Marilyn Ong ... More About: Pinay , Tagged , Bank , Scam
Alleged illegal recruiter falls upon return from HK
2008-04-29 12:06:00 MANILA, Philippines - A woman facing a string of illegal recruitment charges was arrested shortly upon arrival in the Philippines from Hong Kong. Radio dzBB’s Denver Trinidad reported Tuesday that aviation police arrested Connie Gomez at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 2. The police served Gomez an arrest warrant issued by Manila judge Rustico Panganiban, stemming ... More About: Return , Illegal , Falls
Foreign maids like Taiwan, HK more than Singapore
2008-04-29 12:06:00 Foreign maids like Taiwan , HK more than Singapore SINGAPORE: Fewer foreign maids are choosing to work in Singapore, with those from Indonesia and the Philippines now preferring places like Hong Kong and Taiwan, a survey showed Monday. Local English daily The Straits Times reported that a check with 20 maid agencies reveals that the higher pay ... More About: Foreign
OFW who died in Saudi cell changed name for backdoor exit
2008-04-28 11:24:00 MANILA, Philippines - The Filipino who died in a Jeddah deportation cell earlier this month was not endorsed by the consulate after using a different name in preparation for a ‘backdoor exit.’ This was the clarification of Philippine Consul General Ezzedin Tago after several militant groups blamed the officials there for the death of 30-year-old Ryan ... More About: Cell , Saudi , Died , Backdoor
RP wants to deploy more aviation workers
2008-04-27 05:24:00 The Philippines needs more aviation industry workers to be deployed abroad, mostly aircraft technicians, a general term that applies to various functions in the aircraft maintenance industry. ?There?s a big shortage of aircraft technicians in the United States, United Kingdom, Singapore and the Middle East.?, said Sylvia B. Pacina, president of Venus International Placement Agency. ... More About: Workers , Aviation
Economist: OFW money can?t bridge income inequality
2008-04-27 04:23:00 EXTREME reliance on money from Filipinos overseas hasn?t helped the country get out of the poverty rut and may even hobble the poor?s income capability, says an economist. Using government?s triennial Family Income and Expenditures Survey (FIES), University of the Philippines economic researcher Ernesto Pernia said remittances from overseas Filipino workers may even be contributing ... More About: Business , Economist , Money , Bridge
Migrante slams documentary stamp tax on OFW remittances
2008-04-26 23:23:00 An alliance of organizations composed of OFWs and their families is expressing concern over alleged government plans to collect a documentary stamp tax on remittances through remittance companies as another scheme to bleed OFWs dry. According to Migrante-Middle East, a Western Union source in Dubai told them that the Arroyo government will soon collect a ... More About: Documentary , Stamp
OFWs visiting Slovenia can apply at Belgian Embassy
2008-04-26 23:22:00 The Philippine Embassy in Vienna reported to the Department of Foreign Affairs that under a special arrangement between the governments of Belgium and Slovenia , Filipinos wishing to visit Slovenia may apply for visa through the Belgian Embassy in Manila. As Slovenia?s representative, the Belgian Embassy has been entrusted with full authority to interview applicants, demand ...
DFA urged to conduct probes of OFW deaths
2008-04-26 23:20:00 Migrante, an alliance of overseas Filipino workers? organizations based in different countries, is asking the Department of Foreign Affairs to investigate several deaths of overseas Filipino workers. The latest of these is the alleged heart attack of an OFW in Jeddah on March 11, that it charged the Consulate General has not yet investigated. ?We ... More About: Deaths
Sen. Manny Villar facilitates repatriation of 13 OFWs, dependent
More articles from this author:2008-04-26 23:20:00 Sen. Manuel Villar has facilitated the repatriation of 13 maltreated overseas Filipino workers and a dependent this month. Most of them have already returned to their respective places of origin. With repatriation money provided by Villar, five maltreated overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Abu Dhabi finally came home on April 24 after being stranded in ... More About: Manny , Dependent 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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