OFWs GET BOOST IN NEW SINGAPORE POLICY The Philippines can now veer away from the usual household or domestic helper market in Singapore this after the city state has announced it is relaxing its policy...  More

MAID IN THE PHILIPPINES In the romantic comedy Maid in Manhattan starring Jennifer Lopez, a lowly maid in a five-star New York hotel lives a Cinderella-like fairy tale. Dressing up in clothes left behind in a room... More

PHILIPPINE NEWS

 

Pamaskong Handog Starts for OFWs

Greater Protection, Help to our Overseas
Workers

OFWs can soon seek legal assistance via email

President's Message
RCBC Opens OFW Center

OFWS Urged to Help the Nation

Philippine Migrants Up

Over $7 Billion Remittances from OFWs Seen This Year

Balik Pilipinas Entre Pinoy Program

Hiring Filipino Workers Through POEA

OFWs HIT CORRUPTION IN NAIA  For some overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and their families, a simple visit to Abu Dhabi or Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) would not be complete without a bundle of money in their pockets...  More

OFWs GUIDE TO STOCK MARKET  Too often, people refer to the stock market as a gambler's den, an arena where only the sharpest and fastest parry with sophisticated weapons of information and analysis of choice...   More

OFWs ASKED TO "SACRIFICE" AGAINST SARS  Overseas Filipino workers were urged Tuesday to make a "sacrifice" by not coming home during the Holy Week to help spare the Philippines from the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) virus... More

10,000 OFWs TO LEAVE WITH LIFTING OF DEPLOYMENT BAN  Some 10,000 Filipino workers are expected to leave for Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Israel in the coming weeks after the processing of contracts resumed yesterday... More

RUNAWAY OFWs TAKE COVER AT RELOCATION SITE  A total of 322 run­away overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Kuwait were placed at the Nuwaiseeb relo­cation site, a labour official said yesterday.  Of the total...  More

THE NEW US IMPORT: TEACHERS  First it was nurses. Now recruiters are tapping the Philippines to help fill a void in American classrooms.   The new teacher struggles to keep the algebra lesson on track. An eighth-grader...  More

GMA ASKS MORE TIME TO WORK ON BETTER TREATMENT OF DH IN HK  President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo today stood up for the welfare of Filipino domestic helpers and said she would not take sitting down... More

OWWA UNVEILS STOCK INVESTMENT PROGRAM FOR OFWS  The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) today unveiled a stock investment program for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and...  More

PROTECT OVERSEAS FILIPINO WORKERS  Foreign Service Officers should conduct their jobs with "genuine sympathy, concern and respect" for overseas Filipino workers, especially those...  More

BILLS EYE NEW DEPT. OF OFW, SPECIAL BANK FOR EXPATRIATE FILIPINOS  A congressman has filed separate measures putting up a new Department of Overseas Filipino Workers (DOFW) and a special bank for the “unsung heroes” sectors...  More

ONE NATION, OVERSEAS  Need (hired) help? Try the Philippines, the forerunner of tomorrow's distributed economy, supplying nurses, teachers, techies, and sailors to the global village.  They're known as bagong bayani...  More

PHILIPPINES RANKS FOURTH WORLDWIDE IN IT SKILLS !  The Philippines ranks fourth worldwide in competence and skills for the information and communication technology (ICT) sector...  More

THE MAKING OF AN OFW BANK  A bank of OFWs, for OFWs, by OFWs.  That's the vision founders of OFW Net Foundation and OFW International Holdings shared to invited guests...  More

BIG CHUNK OFW FUND LOST IN BAD INVESTMENTS, SAYS PHILIPPINE LABOR CHIEF  Labor Secretary Patricia Sto. Tomas yesterday confirmed that the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) had lost...  More