Share   Last Tuesday, Somali pirates snatched a Liberian-flagged boat with 19 Filipino crew members off the coast of Oman Share [Continue reading]

Share   "Make time to go to  the polling centers as early as possible to vote" Share [Continue reading]

Share   200 Filipino teachers in Louisiana gained legal victory Friday when the state’s labor department ordered their Philippine-based recruitment agency to pay about $1.8 million in illegally charged placement fees. Share [Continue reading]

Share   This is an important information for our OFWs who are contemplating on how to utilize their earnings. Share [Continue reading]

Share A Filipina helper in the United Arab Emirates is currently facing charges for attempting to kill her Egyptian five-month-old baby by throwing it off their apartment building’s 13th floor. Share [Continue reading]

Share A Malaysian newspaper reported that six Filipino workers died after inhaling carbon monoxide while they were cleaning a water tank in Malaysia. Department of Foreign Affairs is still confirming the details of the incident. In the newspaper, the incident happened at the Kampung Lawa Gadong water treatment plant in the southwest Beaufort [Continue reading]

Share   Returning overseas Filipino workers (OFW) were warned last Monday, February 24 by the Middle East chapter of migrants’ rights group against accommodating padala or packages.  It has been our tradition that whenever a returning OFW is set to come back in his or her homeland, a fellow OFW will ask to carry a [Continue reading]

Share   Since Saturday, more than 200 OFWs in Saudi Arabia have stopped working, in protest of the suspected unfair labor practices of their employers. The group of engineers, supervisors and construction workers working for Al Arab Contracting Company Ltd., have decide to stop working when their company paid no heed to their complaints. On [Continue reading]

Share   Vice President Noli de Castro Jr. was sent by the president to appeal  for the life of Jakatia Pawa, a Filipino worker who was charged with murder for allegedly killing Dala Al-Naqi, the 22 – year-old daughter of her employer in Kuwait on May 14, 2007. Pawa was convicted and sentenced to death [Continue reading]

Share Remittances of Filipinos abroad up 11.3% in Nov. Millions of Filipinos abroad sent home $ 1.46 billion in November, up 11.3 percent from year earlier, strengthened by the extra transfers of funds to help families affected by typhoons. According to Central Bank, the November figure brings total remittances for the first 11 months of [Continue reading]