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Filipino motorists are the most fuel-efficient conscious drivers around but they are also stingy when spending on gas, a study funded by a multinational energy company stated.
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Filipinos in the UAE who are facing problems at work or seeking new jobs can now turn to a new group of human resources professionals for guidance.
Alan Bacason, the president of the Filipino Human Resources Practitioners’ Association, which refers...
Filipinos in Kuwait were largely unimpressed by their country’s new president’s first State of the Nation Address (SONA). Philippines President Benigno Aquino III delivered his first, keenly anticipated address yesterday at the opening of...
Thousands of Filipino workers in Iraq are on the brink of losing their jobs after the US government ordered all its military contractors to send home expatriate workers whose country imposes a travel ban in Iraq.
The deadline for expatriation is August...
In an unprecedented event yesterday, a few Filipino employees of a company turned up at Indian Embassy to lodge a complaint against an Indian managed company here.
Though they had come hearing about the monthly community grievances forum at the embassy,...
Amid tales of abuses against Filipino workers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a Filipina worker has returned to the Philippines telling the story of the royal treatment she had enjoyed from her Arab employer despite her illness.
Marilou Lorenzo Ramirez,...
The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) has lost 24 key personnel, most of them experienced weather forecasters, in the past 10 years to lucrative offers from abroad, the Inquirer has learned.
Brain drain...
Along with all the sounds of streetlife reverberating in the UAE – the horns, the call to prayer, the revving engines and snatches of song from across the world – a constant soundtrack is provided by one of the most thriving of expatriate communities....
Thousands of Filipino domestic helpers are still getting jobs in Jordan despite a two-year-old deployment ban there for such occupation, a Philippine Embassy official said.
Welfare officer Carmelita Mag-uyon of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration...
For most children summer is a carefree time. But for the children of Israel’s undocumented migrant workers, deportation looms on the horizon.
It has been a hotly contested issue since last July, when the Oz Unit, a strong arm of the interior ministry’s...