Credit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 16:56:13 +0000
THE Philippine Red Cross (PRC) started distributing face masks to overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) en route to Hong Kong on Friday, February 21.This began after Manila lifted the travel ban on Chinese territories that was a response to the coronavirus disease (Covid-19)outbreak. The PRC was able to give face masks to almost 700 passengers headed […]
Read moreCredit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 06:49:11 +0000
THOUSANDS of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) bound for Hong Kong and Macau cannot leave Manila due to lack of flights to the Special Administrative Regions (SARs). Emmanuel Geslani, recruitment consultant and migration expert, said that although the Philippine government has lifted the travel ban to Hong Kong and Macau “these workers still have not left […]
Read moreCredit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2020 07:00:31 +0000
ALL 30 Filipinos from Wuhan, China were cleared to go home after showing no signs and symptoms of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) after their 14-day quarantine, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said on Saturday. In a press statement, the DFA said the 30 Filipinos and 19 others who handled the repatriation were all declared […]
Read moreCredit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 08:19:52 +0000
OVERSEAS Filipinos to be repatriated from Hubei, China will be quarantined at Fort Magsaysay in Nueva Ecija, the Department of Health (DoH) said on Wednesday. “They will be on quarantine. Because they are coming from the hot zone,” said Health Undersecretary for Public Health Services Team Myrna Cabotaje in a hearing by the House of Representatives’ Committee on Metro Manila Development. The […]
Read moreCredit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 08:19:52 +0000
OVERSEAS Filipinos to be repatriated from Hubei, China will be quarantined at Fort Magsaysay in Nueva Ecija, the Department of Health (DoH) said on Wednesday. “They will be on quarantine. Because they are coming from the hot zone,” said Health Undersecretary for Public Health Services Team Myrna Cabotaje in a hearing by the House of Representatives’ Committee on Metro Manila Development. The […]
Read moreCredit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 08:59:23 +0000
AN estimated 25,000 Filipino household service workers (HSWs) or domestic helpers may lose their jobs over the travel ban imposed by the Philippines on Hong Kong and Macau as part of its precautionary measure to contain the spread of the 2019 novel Corona Virus (n-CoV). The figure consists of 10, 000 returning and 15,000 newly […]
Read moreCredit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2020 08:00:58 +0000
THE first batch of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) who were evacuated from Iraq would be coming home, the Department of the National Defense (DND) said on Saturday. DND spokesman Arsenio Andolong said the 14 would be transported to Doha, Qatar from the Philippine Embassy in Baghdad and flown to Manila on Sunday, January 12, he said. Andolong said the number […]
Read moreCredit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2019 11:59:38 +0000
THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) has deactivated 578,185 overseas voters for failing to participate in the 2016 and 2019 national and local elections. The Department of Foreign Affairs-Overseas Voting Secretariat (DFA-OVS) revealed this on Thursday as it urged the concerned individuals to re-register. “In this regard, the deactivated voters are urged to re-register in order […]
Read moreCredit to Author: THE MANILA TIMES| Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2019 06:47:50 +0000
THE Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) reiterated its warning to Filipino job seekers against the use of tourist or visit visa to secure jobs overseas. The warning came after the DFA reunited 71 distressed overseas Filipino workers (OFW), who all left the country using a visit visa, with their families in the Philippines. “OFWs without […]
Read moreCredit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 06:57:37 +0000
THE implementation of mandatory coverage of overseas Filipino workers (OFW) under the Social Security System (SSS) will continue despite opposition from some seafarers who questioned it before the Supreme Court, the…READ
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