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The Department of Labor and Employment vowed to bring repatriated overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to their respective homes with dispatch. During the send-off ceremony for some 200 migrant workers at the Paranaque Integrated Exchange…

Philippine Airlines has released a roster of flights between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates for the rest of the year 2020. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, flight schedules have been curtailed heavily in the past few months. But…

Livelihood programs will be the priority of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) to provide to Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) according to its post-coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) recovery plan. During a briefing, DOLE…

Just like many other countries, the Philippines has been struggling to cope up with the impact of coronavirus. Movement of citizens has been restricted, and transport systems have been paralyzed in an effort to arrest the spread of the…

A number of success stories have emerged featuring former Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) who have achieved relative success in their agricultural ventures post overseas stints: A former overseas Filipino worker (OFW), engineer…

Sending money to the family in the Philippines is one of the many to-do lists overseas Filipino workers have planned to do even before they leave the Philippines for a career abroad. OFWs in Taiwan, like everyone else, have struggled…

As a sign of gratitude and fulfilling a wish of his grandfather, Canadian crooner Michael Bublé gifted the elderly man's Vancouver home to his Filipina caregiver. But before the change of ownership took place, Bublé also renovated the…

The Philippine Health Insurance Corp. or PhilHealth has recently made an announcement that overseas Filipino workers are obliged to pay 3% of their monthly income to finance the Philippines' health system. This has generated an uproar among…

Foreign residents in Japan, including Filipino workers, who are listed on the country's Basic Resident Register as of April 27, 2020 are eligible for Y100,000 (P47,349) handout by the government as part of its economic response amid the…

In addition to the skill and expertise of Filipinos bring to benefit their host countries, they also bear a considerable degree of risk and hazards at work. For example, seafarers deal with the risk of piracy in the seas of high-risk…