Overseas Filipino workers may soon benefit from the government’s universal health program as the Department of Health readies a program addressing the issue of migrant health. DOH Secretary Enrique Ona said his department will work with the...

Saying overseas Filipino workers are the country’s best ambassadors of goodwill, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) ordered the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) to prepare modules on Filipino values for the OFWs. DOLE Secretary Rosalinda...

Hacktivists on Saturday defaced the website of the Philippine Embassy in Bahrain, following the death of an overseas Filipino worker there. As of 5 a.m. Saturday, visitors to the site of the Philippine embassy in Bahrain were...

U.S. senators crafting an immigration bill have agreed that foreigners who crossed the U.S. border illegally would be deported if they entered the United States after Dec. 31, 2011, a congressional aide said on Friday. The legislation...

The Commission on Elections urged the country’s estimated 737,759 registered voters who are working and living abroad to exercise their right to vote as the month-long overseas absentee voting (OAV) starts on April 13. The Comelec Committee...

A Filipina was sentenced to three weeks in jail on Monday in Singapore after she attempted to bribe two police officers who apprehended her for littering last year, a newspaper said. According to Singapore publication The Straits...

A U.S. visa program ran a lottery on Sunday to award 85,000 slots for high-skilled workers just one week after the application period opened, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service said, signaling companies feel confident enough about...

Four Filipinos in Florida state in the US were killed Wednesday in a road accident, reports said. A report on the Florida-based publication Sun-Sentinel identified the fatalities as driver Dennis Ryan Rinon Ortiz, 33; Albertson Anthony Almase,...

A bill to overhaul the US immigration system would likely be completed by the end of this week, two senior US senators said on Sunday. Democratic Senator Charles Schumer of New York said that senators in the...

Amid fears of an influx of Filipinos and armed groups from Mindanao into Sabah, Malaysia has imposed stricter immigration policy requiring barter traders to present passports or seaman’s books to enter the disputed territory. Effective April 15,...