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Lost, Delayed Balikbayan Boxes: What Senders Need to Know

For many Overseas Filipino Workers around the world, sending a balikbayan box is a tangible expression of love and care from afar. It contains...

Warning Issued to Myanmar Scam Farm Recruiters as Three Arrested for Human Trafficking at NAIA

Three Filipinos—Sarah Jane Santos Marquez, Jalrumax Manaois Turingan, and Noel Bansag Rodriguez—have been arrested by the National Bureau of Investigation’s Airport Investigation Division after...

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Lost, Delayed Balikbayan Boxes: What Senders Need to Know

For many Overseas Filipino Workers around the world, sending a balikbayan box is a tangible expression of love and care from afar. It contains...

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Lost, Delayed Balikbayan Boxes: What Senders Need to Know

For many Overseas Filipino Workers around the world, sending a balikbayan box is a tangible expression of love and care from afar. It contains...

Singapore-based OFW Grateful for OWWA Benefits After Stroke

A 56-year-old overseas Filipino worker (OFW) and aircraft technician based in Singapore, Carlito Rio Sr., expressed heartfelt gratitude to the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration...

Warning Issued to Myanmar Scam Farm Recruiters as Three Arrested for Human Trafficking at NAIA

Three Filipinos—Sarah Jane Santos Marquez, Jalrumax Manaois Turingan, and Noel Bansag Rodriguez—have been arrested by the National Bureau of Investigation’s Airport Investigation Division after...

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Expert Tells OFWs: Bringing Kids Abroad Not Always Good Idea

Bringing children to another country to be with their parents who are based there may have their own share of adverse effects, an expert...

Working in Singapore: 10 Things Filipinos Need to Know Before Working There

Working in Singapore is a preference for many Filipinos. It is just a few hours flight from the Philippines and shares the same timezone...

Should Stay-in Domestic Helpers Spend Days Off Outdoors?

It's a mandated by law that domestic workers in Hong Kong are granted days off so they can spend time on other matters besides...

One-Stop Service Center For OFWs Opens at POEA

The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is launching a one-stop shop for OFWs on Monday, August 15, where government frontline services are made...

Tips For OFW Registration and Mandatory Online OEC Appointment

Change has indeed come! Last August 8, 2016, POEA issued a resolution stating that some groups of OFWS are already exempted from securing the OEC...

Becoming Hubby's 'Punching Bag' Not Enough To Annul Marriage

Becoming your husband's virtual punching bag is not enough to annul your marriage in the Philippines, a member of the Integrated Bar of the...

9 Factors That Contribute to OFW Stress

There are many annoying or stressful things around us in the Philippines. Video customer in the neighborhood beerhouse singing out-of-tune tracks. Double parking vehicles...

While You Are Enjoying Life as an OFW’s Child

Although many children of Filipinos who left them to work for bigger pay abroad lament the lack of time and attention other children receive,...

Roommate Problems: 10 Habits of a Bad Housemate

Many Filipinos work abroad hoping to provide for families and prepare for their future. To further squeeze meager income they receive from their monthly wages,...

Study Now Pay Later (SNPL) and Other Available CHED Scholarships

FULL SCHOLARSHIP (FS) Intended for high school graduates whose general weighted average (GWA) is at least 90% or its equivalent, and for graduating high school...

Infidelity: The Problem With Husband, Wife Working Far Apart as OFWs

In some cases, it is not enough for one member of the family to be the breadwinner. There are couples who both work abroad....

How to Process Qatar Family Visa

Good news for those who are missing their families in Qatar, families of sponsored residents in the country are now able to visit their...