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Gov?t allots P2.9 M for repatriation of stranded OFWs in Saudi
2008-03-29 23:01:00 Over 150 stranded Filipino workers in Saudi Arabia are expected to return home and finally be reunited with their families within the next two weeks, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) reported yesterday. Acting Labor Secretary Marianito Roque said the government already allocated some $73,000 or P2.9 million for the immediate repatriation of 167 ... More About: Jeddah
UAE-based journalists attend UN Humanitarian Workshop in Dubai
2008-03-29 23:00:00 Journalists from national, regional and international newspapers and broadcast stations based in Dubai and Abu Dhabi had a one-day interactive training session with the senior UN representatives from Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and Integrated City at the Dubai Press Club. The first-ever media workshop was designed to provide journalists with key ... More About: Workshop , Journalists
Group asks govt to pay, repatriate Jeddah OFWs
2008-03-29 22:59:00 Group asks govt to pay, repatriate Jeddah OFWs Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and their families picketed the Overseas Workers? Welfare Administration (OWWA) and filed applications for reimbursements en masse to demand immediate repatriation of at least 200 overseas workers and their family members in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and the reimbursement of their plane tickets. Migrante ... More About: Group , Govt
RP consulate warns OFWs on Saipan vs phone scam
2008-03-29 15:50:00 SUSUPE, Saipan - The Philippine Consulate General on Saipan has warned overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and their families back home against a scam by Manila-based companies purportedly offering unlimited calls for only US$125 per year. A number of OFWs on Saipan had reported to the Consulate and the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration that they are receiving ... More About: Phone , Scam
OFW money fails to bridge income gap
2008-03-29 15:49:00 MAKATI CITY, Philippines ? 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, University of the Philippines economist Ernesto Pernia said in a research that remittances from overseas Filipino ... More About: Money , Bridge
Jailed Filipino seafarer in Bangladesh freed
2008-03-29 15:49:00 MANILA, Philippines - A Filipino seaman incarcerated in Bangladesh for 11 years had been released after an official from the Philippine Foreign Affairs department appealed for his freedom. In a press statement, the Department of Foreign Affairs said seafarer Wilfredo Rosales will leave Dhaka for Philippines on Saturday. Rosales was arrested in the Bangladesh southern port city ...
RP nurses tricked to New Zealand jobs urged to tell on recruiters
2008-03-29 15:48:00 MANILA, Philippines - A migrants? support group in New Zealand is willing to provide assistance to Filipino professionals, particularly nurses, who become victims of false promises of recruiters and loan sharks, in taking their cases to court. The group called Wellington Kiwi Pinoy (WKP) was organized early this year to extend support to Filipino jobseekers in ... More About: Jobs , Nurses
Pinay guns for seat in S. Korea Nat?l Assembly
2008-03-28 22:51:00 Pinay guns for seat in S. Korea Nat?l Assembly A Filipino widow from Cavite province is running for a seat in the South Korean National Assembly. Luis Cruz, Philippine Ambassador to the Republic of Korea, recently reported to the Department of Foreign Affairs that Judith A. Hernandez, a former Cavite resident, is running under the ... More About: Guns , Seat , Pinay
3 abandoned Japinos to start new life in Japan
2008-03-28 13:15:00 MANILA, Philippines - Three children abandoned by their Japan ese fathers left Friday for Japan in what a nonprofit group said is the first case where their Filipino mothers are being allowed to go along to live and work there. The children — between the ages of 6 and 12 — left with their mothers for Nagoya ... More About: Life , Start , New Life , Abandoned
Rondalla course offered to Pinoys in Singapore
2008-03-28 13:15:00 MANILA, Philippines-Filipinos in Singapore who miss the rural folk scene conjured by the music of the familiar rondalla can now learn to play the uniquely-shaped string instrument ensemble after a special course was launched in the Lion City earlier this week. The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) reported on Friday that the Philippine Bayanihan Centre in ...
Cavitena vies for seat in S. Korea parliament
2008-03-28 13:14:00 MANILA, Philippines - A woman who grew up in Cavite is making history in South Korea for being the first foreign-born candidate for a seat in the national assembly. Judith A. Hernandez has joined the slate of the newly-formed Republic of Korea Party, organized by former presidential candidate Kook-hyun Moon, for the April 9 general elections. Philippine ... More About: Seat , Parliament , S Korea
Pinoy convicted in first stalking trial on Saipan
2008-03-28 13:13:00 SUSUPE, Saipan – A Filipino contract worker was found guilty of one count of stalking in the first ever trial of this nature in the US Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI). The worker, Roger S. Castillo, 51, was convicted in connection with stalking his former common-law wife last year. CNMI Superior Court Associate Judge Juan ... More About: Trial , Pinoy , Stalking
Filipino killed in Dubai explosion
2008-03-27 22:55:00 A Filipino overseas worker was killed after he was hit by debris from an explosion caused by a fire from a fireworks warehouse in Dubai on Wednesday. Department of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Claro Cristobal said Philippine Consul General in Dubai Benito Valeriano reported that Romeo Olaya was killed from the explosion at the Seville Products ... More About: Explosion , Killed
Middle East OFWs set ‘no remittance’ day on April 5
2008-03-27 22:51:00 MANILA, Philippines - The Middle East chapters and affiliates of Migrante International have scheduled April 5 as next month’s “No Remittance Day” as a form of continuing protests over the Arroyo administration’s stay in power. This would be the second No Remittance Day called by Migrante in the Middle East since March 8, coinciding with the ...
Travel group helps DFA process passport applications
2008-03-27 14:00:00 MANILA, Philippines - An association of local travel agencies has agreed to assist the Department of Foreign Affairs to ease the time-consuming and tedious processing of passport applications. The six-month memorandum of agreement (MOA) singed last Tuesday by the Philippine Travel Agencies Association (PTAA) and the DFA is expected to improve passport processing services. PTAA president ... More About: Applications , Group , Process , Passport
60 Jeddah OFWs cleared for deportation
2008-03-26 23:08:00 SIXTY of the overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who camped out under a bridge in Jeddah have been cleared for deportation and are expected to return to the Philippines in April. According to Undersecretary for Migrant Workers Affairs, Esteban Conejos, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) is now legally processing the papers of these OFWs who ... More About: Deportation
BSP trims OFW savings plan
2008-03-26 23:08:00 The Monetary Board (MB) cut the amount of long-term deposit products Land Bank of the Philippines plans to offer to overseas Filipino workers (OFW), a Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) official said Wednesday. BSP Deputy Gov. Nestor A. Espenilla Jr. said the central bank’s policy-making body has allowed LandBank to offer only P5-billion worth of ... More About: Plan , Savings
OFW dies in Dubai warehouse blast
2008-03-26 23:07:00 MANILA, Philippines - A Filipino worker died Wednesday in Al Quoz, Dubai after being hit in the head by a flying debris from loud explosions in a warehouse that stored fireworks. The online edition of Gulf News reported that Romello Olaya, 29 years old, was on his way to work and passing by the Seville Products ... More About: Blast , Warehouse , Dies
Thousands of Pinoys in Saipan join Good Friday rites
2008-03-22 01:58:00 CAPITAL HILL, Saipan ? Amid the heavy rain and the thick fog, thousands of Filipino workers and their families in the US territory of Saipan joined members of the local community in the annual trek to Mount Tapochau in observance of Good Friday . Another highlight of the pilgrimage in Saipan is the carrying of a large ... More About: Join
UK jury convicts Filipino woman in ponzi scheme
2008-03-22 01:58:00 MANILA, Philippines - A jury in South Devon, England has convicted a 57-year-old Filipino woman in connection with a 350,000 British pound (P28.8 million) Philippine-based international investment scam. A jury at Exeter Crown Court reached a 10.2 majority verdict for Belen Aquino-Gower on two regulatory charges relating to carrying on business as an unauthorized broker for ... More About: Woman , Ponzi Scheme , Convicts
Show tough love to OFWs on illegal drugs, priest tells colleagues
2008-03-21 12:19:00 MANILA , Philippines - Provide tough love to Filipinos overseas who are using or engaged in the trade of illegal drugs by reporting them to law enforcement authorities. This was the advice given by Fr. Edwin Corros, executive secretary of the Commission on Pastoral Care for Migrants and Itinerant People of the Catholic Bishops Conference of ... More About: Love , Drugs , Show , Tough , Illegal
Japan grants P1.19-M aid for Japino kids
2008-03-21 12:18:00 MANILA, Philippines - The Japan ese government has extended a P1.19-million grant to a Philippine foundation to strengthen the organization of Japanese-Filipino children. Japanese Ambassador to the Philippines Makoto Katsura and Batis Center for Women executive director Andrea Castor Anolin signed the contract for the grant at the Japanese embassy. The fund would be drawn from the Grant ... More About: Kids , Grants
OFW group prays for Arroyo on Good Friday
2008-03-21 02:24:00 MANILA, Philippines - Many Filipino Catholics in the Middle East will be observing Good Friday traditions discreetly in small groups. Some of them will include in their prayers a special petition: spiritual enlightenment for President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, her husband and her loyal followers in government, according to John Leonard Monterona, regional coordinator of Migrante-Middle East. Islam ... More About: Group
Retrenched OFWs in Namibia refuse repatriation bid
2008-03-21 02:23:00 MANILA, Philippines - The 250 Filipino workers retrenched from a Malaysia-based textile manufacturing company in Namibia have refused to be repatriated without getting payment of their leave credits and separation pay. Online news The Namibian reported that the Filipinos were given between March 15 and 18 after Ramatext Namibia stopped operations on March 7, claiming huge ...
Seven Filipinas honoured
2008-03-19 22:09:00 SEVEN Filipinas who have epitomised womanhood and who have become concrete examples of social equity between the sexes while in the UAE were honoured at a tea party in Dubai recently. The seven were Saudi Royal Fleet pilot-entrepreneur Capt. Irene Mora, physician-pianist Norma Tajanlangit, businesswoman-community leader Lucille Ong, beauty titlist Tracy Javellana, entrepreneur Rowena Jamaji, ...
Filipino painter exhibits art works in Malaysia
2008-03-19 14:08:00 MANILA, Philippines - The artworks of a prolific Filipino artist recently ended its successful exhibit in Malaysia , the Department of Foreign Affairs reported on Wednesday. Frederick Epistola?s paintings were unveiled at the Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Center on March 10 for a week-long display entitled, ?Global Compact: Helping Improve Lives through a Fusion of Art and ... More About: Works , Painter , Exhibits
250 Filipino textile workers in Namibia terminated
2008-03-19 14:07:00 MANILA, Philippines - About 250 Filipino workers employed at a Malaysian-owned textile factory in Namibia were expected to be repatriated to the Philippines without assurance of getting their separation pay. Ramatex Textile s Namibia, southern Africa?s largest textile manufacturing industry located on the outskirts of Windhoek, shut its operations early this month after claiming losses of up ... More About: Workers
Human trafficking is 3rd most serious problem in US
2008-03-19 14:06:00 NUTLEY, New Jersey ?Last month, a Filipino woman and her Caucasian husband, Angelita and Robert Farrell of South Dakota, were sentenced to at least three years in prison.They were convicted last November 18th of forcing several Filipino immigrants into servitude and peonage. The immigrants, two men and nine women, ages 24 to 50, worked as ... More About: Human , Human Trafficking , Problem
RP enjoys dollar surplus
2008-03-17 22:38:00 BUOYED by strong remittances from overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), export receipts and foreign investments, the country enjoyed a dollar surplus in the first two months of the year, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said Monday. BSP Governor Amando M. Tetangco Jr. said the country?s balance of payments (BOP) at end-February registered a surplus of ... More About: Business , Dollar , Surplus
80% of new nurses want to work abroad
More articles from this author:2008-03-17 14:30:00 MANILA, Philippines ? The head of the country?s biggest nursing organization has estimated that roughly 80 percent of the latest batch of more than 28,000 new nurses in the country intends to work abroad. ?That is just my assumption (about 80 percent). It was based on the people that I have talked to pero wala talagang ... More About: Work , Nurses 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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