by ROBIN G. PADILLA

OFW Journalism Consortium

MANILA–ON Labor Day, the chief of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration wishes in a social networking site that Filipino workers will not […]

from a May 5 report by The Borneo Post

KOTA KINABALU, MALAYSIA–THREE Filipinos who entered illegally here were meted out five-month jail terms by a Malaysian immigration court.

Ali Mirsani, 50, […]

from a May 4 report by the Philippine News Agency published in the Zamboanga Times

MANILA—SOME 55 Filipinos from Manus, Papua New Guinea returned here after their supposed jobs with a fishing company […]

from an April 19 report by Flora Drury of the Tottenham Journal in the United Kingdom

TOTTENHAM, UNITED KINGDOM–A FILIPINO nurse spotted by a camera to be abusing an an ederly Alzheimer’s patient was […]

from an April 22 report by Michelle Robinson of Stuff in New Zealand

AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND–FILIPINO nurses here are reportely getting paid as caregivers, not to menton that they are bonded into […]

from an April 22 report by the Kuwait Times

KUWAIT–SOME 7,300 Filipinos are living in Kuwait without valid residency permits, says a govertnment report.

Kuwait’s Migration General Department said […]

from an April 22 report by Kirsty Johnson of Stuff

AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND–FILIPINO caregivers for the elderly here have been lauded for their work even as New Zealand rest homes have introduced […]

“New Zealand makes guidelines to make migrant dairy farmers stay”

From a report by Sally Rae of the Otago Daily Times in New Zealand

OTAGO, NEW ZEALAND–The New Zealand government released two new […]

From a report of the Philippine Information Agency

April 3, 2012

CABARROGUIS, QUIRINO–THE Overseas Workers Welfare Administration’s regional office in Cagayan Valley announced that two migrant […]

by RUBEN JEFFREY ASUNCION

OFW Journalism Consortium

MANILA–THIS city will be the venue for top labor officials across Asia to review attempts on improving their governments’ handling of overseas […]

An OFW Journalism Consortium news flash exclusive
by JEREMAIAH M. OPINIANO

MANILA—AN economic crisis plaguing Spain will not stop the enforcement of a social security pact between Spain and the […]

An OFW Journalism Consortium news flash exclusive

by JEREMAIAH M. OPINIANO

MANILA—NUEVA Ecija, the country’s rice granary, has just included overseas Filipinos’ concerns in its local development […]

from an April 2 report by The Borneo Post in Malaysia

SANDAKAN, MALAYSIA–A BIG majority of about  100 detained irregular migrants held up in an operation recently were Filipinos..

A Special Task Force, […]

from an April 2 report by Sally Rae of the Otago Daily Times in New Zealand

OTAGO, NEW ZEALAND–FILIPINO dairy workers here and their employers have found as helpful two new guides for dairy farm […]

An OFW Journalism Consortium news flash exclusive
by JEREMAIAH M. OPINIANO

MANILA—THE Home Development Mutual Fund or the Pag-IBIG Fund, reported that some P36 billion in total housing loans have been […]

from a March 31 report by Roger Phillips of Record Net (USA)

CALIFORNIA, USA—EXPIRING work visas will soon force some 15 Filipino teachers in Stockton’s Unified District in United States out of their […]

from a March 31 report by Eunice Au of Asia One (Singapore)

KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA–FILIPINO maids are now in demand in Malaysia despite the higher wage employers have to pay for their services.

Asia […]

from a March 29 report by the Visayan Daily Star

BACOLOD CITY, NEGROS OCCIDENTAL-RELTIVES of a missing Negrense domestic worker who left for Saudi Arabia are asking help to locate her.

Joebie […]

from an April 1 report by Mariecar Jara-Puyod of Gulf News

MANILA–OVERSEAS Filipino workers (OFWs) from Saudi Arabia are among the most number of members to Manila’s Home Development Mutual Fund or […]

from a March 29 report by Janice Ponce de Leon of Gulf News

MANILA–THE Professional Regulations Commission (PRC) has revised the implementing […]