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Lark Michael B. Colegado celebrates with his wife Maryjane and five-year-old daughter Abia Celine at a restaurant in Jeddah

Honest Pinoy OFW in Jeddah returns US$ 329,000 to owner

By Happinay on October 15, 2009

Share This On: Facebook Twitter Stumble Digg Yahoo Buzz Reddit Gmail MySpace Email Print More Options Last week, a Filipino working in Saudi Arabia found a small box containing 1.2 million riyals while doing a preventive maintenance on an offline Automated Teller Machine (ATM). He was sent by his office to the northern city of [...]

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Jobless woman OFW honored for honesty

By MBJ on June 4, 2009

A jobless woman overseas Filipino worker (OFW), who is based in Hong Kong, was honored for returning the equivalent of more than $40,000 in cash and checks which she found inside a garbage bin to the owner – reward for her honesty – a can of butter cookies.

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Arroyo goes after recruiter of drivers stranded in Dubai

By MBJ on April 17, 2009

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo ordered the filing of charges against an agency that recruited 137 drivers, mostly from Central Luzon, but who ended up jobless in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, a senior Malacanang official announced.

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High Court awards $26,000 to illegally dismissed OFW

By MBJ on April 2, 2009

The Supreme Court awarded a total of $26,442.73 in wages to an overseas Filipino worker (OFW) as it declared as unconstitutional a provision in a law that limits to three months the money claims of illegally dismissed OFWs.

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OFW families saving more, says Central Bank

By MBJ on March 20, 2009

Families of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) are saving more from their income mainly due to the hard and difficult times arising from the deepening global economic and financial meltdown, the Central Bank of the Philippines reported.

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Filipino sailor shows will to live for ailing daughter

By MBJ on March 6, 2009

Shortly before Christmas in December 2008, a 15-year-old girl, a leukemia victim, wrote a letter in which she appealed to the Somali pirates to release her father whom they have been holding captive along with 18 other Filipino sailors as their Christmas present to her.

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