Principal Toga Controversy: Why OFW Children Should Be Grateful This Graduation Season

Graduation day is more than a ceremony that features medals, speeches, and photo opportunities. It's a celebration of years of effort and dreams fulfilled....

Reintroducing ROTC in the Philippines

ROTC in the Philippines stands for Reserve Officer Training Corps, a program that provides military training to high school and college students. The program aims...

Free Medicines for Hypertension and Diabetes Patients in the Philippines

The Department of Health (DOH) spearheads the establishment of the DOH Hypertension and Diabetes Club. This will be launched nationwide to enhance the initiatives...

Senior Citizens Benefits and Discounts in the Philippines

Senior citizen benefits in the Philippines are privileges offered to citizens who are 60 years or older. They may be residents in the country...

8 Reasons Why It’s Hard to Find Jobs in the Philippines

For many years, the government of the Philippines has been preaching the growing number of job vacancies. But it's puzzling to realize how this...

OFW Business: Operating a Carinderia / Catering Business

OFW Business is a series of tips for an entrepreneurial overseas Filipino worker, hoping to find the right type of business to invest in the Philippines. A local eatery -- locally known as karinderya or turo-turo -- is a commonly observed type of business in the Philippines. Whether you're near the market, schools, bus terminal or office buildings, a karinderya...

5 Bad Filipino Party Habits That Need to Stop

Every new year, we Filipinos try to move on and be better than the previous one. Even before the new year kicked in, the...

19 Negative Filipino Traits & Values That Need to Change

There are things we find annoying about Filipinos—our bad habits don't seem to change for the better. It may be true that certain nationalities...

“Relatives Expect Me to Pay for Everything”: The Financial Anxiety of OFWs Homecoming Costs

For many Filipinos working or living abroad, the dream of coming home is a sweet one: reuniting with family, enjoying home-cooked meals, and catching...

Benefits of OFW ID System, OFW Bank

Labor and Employment Secretary Silvestre Bello announced an identification system for overseas Filipino workers and a bank dedicated to them will be launched this year. “They will be launched this year. The OFW identification card system will be put in place in March while the OFW Bank will be operational by November,” Manila Times quoted Bello as saying. The OFW identification...

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