OFW from Spain not allowed entry in Maasin City

Jani Arnaiz 04/29/2020

MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte – An overseas Filipino worker (OFW) supposedly from Spain was not allowed entry in the city after he failed to present the proper documents from the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) for returning…

Mocha justifies gathering with OFWs in Batangas amid enhanced quarantine

Katrina Hallare - Inquirer.net 04/29/2020

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…

DOLE wants Taiwan to deport OFW for anti-Duterte comments

Bong Lozada - INQUIRER.net 04/26/2020

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,…

Coronavirus hits 32 Filipinos in Singapore

Christia Marie Ramos - INQUIRER.net 04/03/2020

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…

DFA: 2 overseas Filipinos succumb to COVID-19

Christia Marie Ramos - INQUIRER.net 03/26/2020

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…

PH to scale down deployment of OFWs to Saudi

Jovic Yee - Inquirer.net 12/18/2019

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…

Christmas in the Philippines: Five things most Filipinos abroad miss

Immae Lachica 12/16/2019

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…

Dole-administered database to track foreign workers’ tax payments sought

07/03/2019

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…

Former OFW busted for drugs in Labangon

Benjie B. Talisic 06/21/2019

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,…

OFW remittances hit $23.7B in 9 months

Inquirer.net 11/16/2018

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…

Freed OFW says she never lost hope while in UAE prison

Inquirer.net 11/02/2018

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.…

About-face: Roque admits Duterte’s OFW kiss ‘inappropriate’

Inquirer.net 10/15/2018

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…

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