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By MBJ on August 31, 2009
MANILA – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has rejected the applications of 4,302 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to enable them to vote in the May 2010 polls, a Comelec spokesman reported.
Posted in 2010 Elections, Nation, OFW News | Tagged absentee voting, comelec, commission on elections, may 2010 elections, ofw voters, ofw votes, philippine elections, pinoy news |
By MBJ on August 28, 2009
MANILA – Former president Fidel Ramos made a last-minute appeal to overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to register and vote in the May 2010 elections.
Posted in Nation, OFW News | Tagged how ofv votes, how to vote in philippine elections, may 2010 elections, may 2010 philippine presidentiables, OFW News, ofw voters, overseas filipino workers, pinoy news |
By MBJ on August 20, 2009
MANILA – Two Filipino teachers, suspected as “mules†or couriers of an international drug syndicate, were arrested at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport while on their way to China
Posted in Nation, OFW News | Tagged china, filipino teachers, national bureau of investigation, nbi, nbi agents, nbi chief, nestor mantarin, ofw, OFW News, oversea filipino workers, philippine immigration, philippne police, pinoy news |
By MBJ on July 20, 2009
Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) remitted a record high of $1.48 billion in May, which was bigger than expectations of the Central Bank of the Philippines (CB), the CB’s top honcho disclosed.
Posted in Nation, OFW News | Tagged ofw buzz, OFW News, ofw remittances, oversea filipino workers, philippine central bank |
By MBJ on July 16, 2009
Worldwide demand for nurses, including those from the Philippines, has declined but this has been compensated by the surge in job opportunities for graduates of technical courses
Posted in Nation, OFW News | Tagged 2009 june nursing board exam passers, deman on nursing graduates, june 2009 nle list of passers, june 2009 nle results, philippine nursing |
By MBJ on July 7, 2009
tricter rules have been imposed on the hiring of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), particularly domestic helpers and other low-skilled workers, a spokesman of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) announced.
Posted in Nation, OFW News | Tagged department of labor and employment, dole, employment, gloria macapagal arroyo, malaysia, manila news, OFW News, ofw opportunities, ofw updates, overseas filipino workers, philippine news, poea tips, Technical Education and Skills Development Authority, tesda |
By MBJ on June 8, 2009
The Philippines paid tribute on Sunday to its estimated eight million overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) for their contributions, not only to the economy but also for their skills and talents that have provided the engines of growth and progress in their host countries.
Posted in Nation, OFW News | Tagged duque, ofw, ofw day, OFW News, ofw tribute, overseas filipino workers, owwa, tributes to ofw |
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.
Posted in Buhay OFW, Nation, Off Beat | Tagged hong kong ofw, jobless ofw, mildred perez, ofw, overseas filipino worker |
By MBJ on May 17, 2009
Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) sent a record high of $1.5 billion in remittances in March despite gloomy predictions of a sharp drop due mainly to the deepening global economic and financial turmoil, the chief of the Central Bank of the Philippines reported.
Posted in Nation, OFW News | Tagged armando tetangco, bangko sentral, central bank, employed filipinos, money abroad, ofw, OFW News, ofw remittances, overseas filipino workers, remittances to philippines, work |
By MBJ on May 15, 2009
Local labor recruiters disputed glowing government reports of an increase in the deployment of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) even in the face of the deepening global financial and economic turmoil.
Posted in Nation, OFW News | Tagged drop in ofw deployment, filipino migrant workers, ofw jobs, OFW News, ofw statistics, ofw updates, unemployed filipinos |
By MBJ on May 6, 2009
The Taiwan Appellate Court saved a woman overseas Filipino worker (OFW) from the firing squad by reversing her death sentence and commuting it instead to life imprisonment, the Philippine representative to Taiwan reported.
Posted in Nation, OFW News |
By MBJ on May 1, 2009
Former senator Vicente Sotto 3rd, the chairman of the Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB) disclosed that 33 OFWs are now detained in several prisons on Brazil and Suriname in South America due to drug-related offenses.
Posted in Nation, OFW News | Tagged anti narcotics, dangerous drugs board, ddb, illegal drugs, manila, ofw, OFW News, overseas filipino workers, tito sotto, vicente sotto |
By MBJ on April 25, 2009
The Philippines appealed for greater protection of the rights of migrants especially in the light of the financial and economic storm that is now buffeting the world.
Posted in Nation, OFW News | Tagged department of foreign affairs, dfa, dole, filipino ofw, human rights, migrant workers, migrant workers rights, ofw |
By MBJ on April 22, 2009
A senior member of the Arroyo Cabinet admitted it would be extremely difficult to implement the recent order of Malacanang banning the deployment of Filipino sailors on foreign vessels passing the Gulf of Aden in Somalia.
Posted in Nation, OFW News | Tagged department of labor and employment, filipino ban in somalia, filipino sailors, gloria arroyo, marianito ruque, OFW News, ofw sailors |
By MBJ on April 19, 2009
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo ordered on Saturday a ban on the deployment of Filipino sailors on vessels passing through pirate-infested waters near Somalia, a senior Malacanang official announced.
Posted in Nation, OFW News | Tagged filipino sailors, gloria arroyo, ofw in somalia, ofw jobs, OFW News, ofw updates |
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