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MANILA, Philippines — Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) Deputy Administrator Margaux “Mocha” Uson on Tuesday defended her action of gathering overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) quarantined in a Matabungay, Batangas, resort for the distribution of hygiene kits, among…
MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is seeking the deportation of an overseas Filipino worker in Taiwan for alleged cyber libel. DOLE, in a statement released Saturday, accused a certain Elanel Egot Ordidor,…
MANILA, Philippines —The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has so far infected 32 Filipinos in Singapore, with 26 of them still under medical care, the Philippine Embassy in the Southeast Asian city-state said. In an update on its…
MANILA, Philippines — At least two Filipinos overseas recently succumbed to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) reported. DFA figures showed that the two deaths were recorded in the Asia Pacific Region…
MANILA, Philippines — Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III on Monday said they were set to scale down “starting next year” the deployment of new hires to Saudi Arabia due to the Gulf state’s continued failure to address…
CEBU CITY, Philippines— Christmas in the Philippines is one of the merriest celebrations in the entire world. So it’s really normal for some of our friends or relatives who are overseas Filipino workers (OFW) to feel sad…
MANILA, Philippines – The government will come up with a single interagency database containing the names and information of all foreign workers in the country in a bid to collect all the personal income taxes due from…
Cebu City, Philippines—A former Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) was nabbed in a buy-bust operation on Friday dawn, June 21, 2019, in Banrangay Labangon here. Police from the Labangon Police station identified the suspect as 35-year-old Mellisa Boy,…
THE amount of dollars sent home by expatriate Filipinos rose further in the first nine months of the year, but data from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) also showed a continuation of flat growth trend in…
JENNIFER Dalquez, the overseas Filipino worker (OFW) who was released from prison in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), said Friday that she never lost hope that she would return home someday and be with her family again.…
Former Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque is doing an about-face from his previous statements as he admitted Sunday that President Rodrigo Duterte’s controversial kiss with an overseas Filipino worker (OFW) in South Korea was “inappropriate.” During his guesting…
Malacañang sees nothing wrong with President Rodrigo Duterte kissing a married overseas Filipino worker (OFW) in Seoul, saying it is “very [much] accepted in the culture of Filipinos.” Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said there was “no…
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