Credit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Fri, 03 May 2019 10:56:38 +0000
A GROUP of overseas Filipinos will be staging a “global protest” at the Philippine consulates and embassies because they have not yet received their ballots, two weeks before the actual…READ
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Read moreCredit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Wed, 01 May 2019 12:29:01 +0000
SAN FERNANDO CITY, Pampanga — The first ever hospital for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and their families will soon rise here. Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) Chief Hans Leo Cacdac…READ
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Read moreCredit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 11:38:01 +0000
TWO Filipinas who were “hired” to be surrogate mothers allegedly in Hongkong were stopped from leaving the country after the Bureau of Immigration discovered that they were actually bound for…READ
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Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2019 10:07:11 +0000
The NBI warned OFWs on Monday to be wary of the “work abroad scheme” posted on social media.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2019 10:06:39 +0000
Former House Deputy Speaker Erin Tañada, a senatorial candidate in the May 2019 elections, on Sunday lambasted special envoy to China Ramon Tulfo for insisting that Filipino workers were lazy.
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Read moreCredit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2019 12:14:32 +0000
JAPAN has opened its doors to Filipino nurse and caregivers under a government-to-government arrangement with the Philippines. Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello 3rd said on Tuesday that the Philippine Overseas Employment…READ
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Read moreCredit to Author: ANGELICA BALLESTEROS, TMT| Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2019 13:00:35 +0000
THE Social Security System (SSS) hopes to start collecting higher contributions from its members in the first half of the year, its President and Chief Executive Officer Emmanuel Dooc said…READ
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Credit to Author: jvicente| Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2019 07:03:02 +0000
President Duterte has approved the bill that offers handbooks for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) containing their rights and benefits.
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Read moreCredit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2019 07:28:02 +0000
THE Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines-Episcopal Commission on Migrants and Itinerant People (CBCP-ECMI) advised overseas Filipino voters to weigh the candidates in the midterm elections in May against the…READ
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Read moreCredit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2019 02:51:25 +0000
CONGRESS has transmitted to President Rodrigo Duterte the proposed Handbook for OFWs Act, which the Senate and House of Representatives ratified in January, its principal author said on Tuesday. SEN….READ
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