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Remittances: How Filipinos Abroad Keep the Philippines’s Economy Alive
LET us imagine the Philippines without its overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and assume there are no temporary and permanent migrants and millions of Filipino families do not receive any remittance… Read more
More Than 100,000 Reacquired Pinoy Citizenship
More than 100,000 people have reacquired Filipino citizenship under the Dual Citizenship Law, the immigration commissioner said yesterday. In a statement, Immigration Commissioner Ricardo David Jr. said 116,059 individuals have… Read more
Pinoy Men More Likely to be Unemployed Than Women: ILO
Men are more likely to be unemployed than women in the Philippines and Thailand, according to a recent report by the International Labor Organization (ILO). In the Global Employment Trends… Read more
Rumor of 115 Filipino Nurses in North Dakota Untrue
A rumor that Trinity Health has hired 115 nurses from the Philippines is false, although a Trinity official has said that the option is not out of the question in… Read more
Deal Signed on Hiring Filipino Domestic Workers for Saudi Arabia
An agreement to recruit Filipino domestic workers to work in the Kingdom was signed in Manila last week. The Saudi and Filipino joint committee signed the agreement last Tuesday, local… Read more
Binay Wants OFW Misconception Corrected
Vice President Jejomar C. Binay has appealed to the Philippine media to correct the misconception that overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) only have “sad stories” to tell. In his message during… Read more
ILO Says 40.2% of Filipino Workers in Low-paying Jobs
ALMOST 2 million jobs were created last year during the first year of the Aquino administration, but as many as 40 percent of all the workers in the country are… Read more
More Filipinos Working Abroad Have HIV-AIDS
At least 271 Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) have been infected with HIV in 2011, 50 per cent higher than 174 OFWs who were tested HIV positive in 2010, a radio… Read more
OFWs Say No Plan to Bring Kin to Hong Kong
For all the xenophobic hoopla raised by Hong Kong residents that foreigners, especially Filipinos, would swamp into their tiny prosperous enclave once the Right of Abode (ROA) law is approved,… Read more
HK Maids Join Rush For Residency Status
The number of domestics applying for permanent residency here has gone up to an average of more than 200 a month from just one before a landmark ruling in 2010… Read more
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