According to Malacañang, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, and China are top countries with Filipinos facing death row, 24, 28, 21 Philippine nationals, respectively. The total of 88 Filipinos facing death penalty is also contributed by two in the United States and one each in Indonesia, Kuwait, and Thailand as cited Sunday from the report of the … Read more
The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration and the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration announced to the public that their scholarship programs are now available to all beneficiaries and Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) defendants. The government agency released online the requirements for the POEA-OWWA Scholarship. The national government announced that all documented OFWs who are members of OWWA … Read more
The Commission on Election (COMELEC) said that they will be re-using the Optical Mark Reader technology as the primary voting system to be used in the 2016 Presidential elections. The announcement was given by Chairman Sixto Brillantes Tuesday, September 2, 2014 afternoon during the en banc meeting. This news is base on ABS-CBN. He also … Read more
According to the latest report posted by IHS, a leading provider of global market and economic information, the Philippine economy is projected to hit $1.2 trillion in 16 years or by the year 2030. Rajiv Biswas, Asia-Pacific chief of economist at IHS was quoted as saying “The Philippines economy has undergone a remarkable transition from … Read more
According to the Party list group, OFW Family Club, there are at least 10,000 OFW’s in Taiwan loose their job after the Taiwanese government imposed freeze hiring of Filipinos. During an exclusive interview with news program Bandila on Monday, July 8, 2013, Rep. Seneres confirmed that a total of 10,000 workers have already loose their … Read more
One of the Philippines largest concentration of OFW’s, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will end their amnesty program for illegal migrant workers. The 90-day grace period will end this coming July 3, 2013. Filipino migrant group, Migrante Internationl stated on Monday, that there are at least 22,000 undocumented OFW’s working in Saudi Arabia which will … Read more
The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) RWO-NcR announced that they are already accepting application for the OFW Defendent Scholarship Program (OFWDSP) for the School Year 2013-2014. The educational (–foul word(s) removed–)istance intended for qualified dependents of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW’s) who wanted to pursue any four-year or five-year baccalaureate degree or (–foul word(s) removed–)ociate degree … Read more
For a stronger and better response to the needs of the Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) abroad, Malacañang build a new high level team that will face the political conflict and natural disaster in the countries where the OFW’s are working. President Benigno Aquino III and Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa signed the Executive Order No. 34 … Read more
As a Presidential Adviser on Overseas Filipino Workers’ Concerns, Vice President Jejomar Binay leaves the country Tuesday heading his way to Qatar and Saudi Arabia to have discussions with regards to the OFW concerns in the Middle East. Binay will stay in Doha until March 31 following his travel to Riyadh on April 1. More … Read more
As of March 9, 2011 Wednesday – The North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) no-fly zone was supported by some Filpinos based in the Eastern Region of Libya. This is to prevent air raids from either rebels or the camp of Col. Moammar Gaddafi. Based on news, fighting was still going on in Raslanof, Bin-Jawat, Atsawiya, … Read more