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BSP urges OFWs to invest 13th month pay
Kalibo :: Philippines | about 6 hours ago
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February 2006 is part of the ongoing advocacy campaign geared at informing OFWs about alternative uses of their hard-earned money, including savings, investments in financial products and business ventures. "To date, we have conducted 34 Financial Learning...
Tags: BSP, overseas filipinos, Leonora Templonuevo, FLC, Philippines, Kalibo, Remittance, Filipinos in the United Arab Emirates, Business Finance, Economy of the Philippines, Overseas Filipino, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
Solons mull OFW ban in the Middle East
Riyadh :: Saudi Arabia | 15 days ago
Credibility Hearing labor woes straight from overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) themselves, a team of lawmakers is considering recommending a ban on the deployment of Filipino workers in the Middle East. Giving an initial glimpse of their findings in a news conference...
Rehired land-based OFWs boost worker deployment in last 5 years
by JEREMAIAH M. OPINIANO OFW Journalism Consortium MANILA—CONTRACTS for overseas work over a five-year period benefited more rehired land-based overseas Filipino workers, government data reveal. ...
Tags: OFWs, newhires, rehires, migrant workers, deployment, OFW deployment, overseas employment, overseas Filipinos
Rural bankers trying to carve niche in OFW market
by Jeremaiah M. Opiniano OFW Journalism Consortium [Reporting from Ibaan municipality, Batangas and Bacolod City, Negros Occidental. Some of the names were changed to protect against probable harm from persons scouring the news for potential victims]...
Tags: OFWs, OFW families, remittances, rural banks, rural bankers, financial literacy, financial education, financial counseling, overseas Filipinos
Eight thousand more Filipinos in Italy in 2008
by Jeremaiah M. Opiniano OFW Journalism Consortium MANILA—NEWLY-RELEASED data on Italy’s migrant population by that country’s census registry showed that the number of documented Filipinos grew by 8,011 more in 2008. ISTAT (Istituto...
Tags: OFWs, overseas Filipinos, Italy, migration statistics, OFW statistics
Human dev't report reminds of rights of people on the move
by Jeremaiah M. Opiniano OFW Journalism Consortium PASAY CITY–Former Dubai-based bus driver Lisandro feels less awkward despite having been on the road on a passenger seat for over-10 hours. He and 136 male bus drivers have grown accustomed...
Tags: OFWs, migration, human mobility, Philippines, overseas Filipinos, human development
Estrada thrills runaway OFWs from UAE
London :: United Kingdom | 2 months ago
Credibility Philippines�Former President Joseph Estrada accompanied his son Senator Jose �Jinggoy� Estrada at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Monday morning to meet 32 distressed overseas Filipino workers, mostly runaway domestics, repatriated by the government...
Tags: Saudi Arabia, overseas filipinos, filipinos workers, president gloria, Jeddah, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Philippines, illegal recruitment, United Kingdom, London
Recruiters vs new ‘low-skilled’ OFW category
Manila :: Philippines | 4 months ago
Credibility Philippines-Licensed recruiters have expressed strong opposition against the new classification of low- and semi-skilled overseas Filipino workers, arguing that the series of series of orders of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration would...
Flu cases rise in Philippine university
Manila :: Philippines | 5 months ago
Credibility Duque said there is no community-level outbreak of the new flu virus and the health officials are confident in putting the situation under control. But he also warned of the possible increase in flu cases as Manila's rainy season has kicked in. "Especially...
Tags: Philippines, Francisco Duque III, The Department of Health, tested positive, overseas filipinos, De La Salle University, The World Health Organization, swine flu, filipinos worker
150 OFW children granted OWWA scholarships
Manila :: Philippines | 6 months ago
Credibility The top two placers of the examination were Kevin Loyola Leaño and Jon Dewitt Enriquez Dalisay. Leaño is the son of a consumer goods manufacturing facility manager in China. He will be taking up Computer Science at the Ateneo De Manila University...He...
Tags: University of the Philippines, filipinos worker, overseas filipinos, Middle East, illegal recruitment
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