Archive for the ‘Migrant Worker’ Category

Sheila Crisostomo
Philippine Star
An expert said yesterday there is no psychiatric procedure that can guarantee that a person will not break down if placed in a hostile environment away from loved ones.
Dr. Reynaldo Lesaka, a psychiatrist at the National Kidney and Transplant Institute, said the proposal of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to require Filipino [...]

Pia Lee-Brago
Philippine Star
Malaysia has assured the processing of papers of undocumented Filipino workers who will comply with the requirements of regularization until end of October, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said yesterday.
DFA Undersecretary for Migrant Workers Affairs Esteban Conejos Jr. said in a press briefing that the Malaysian government has given undocumented Filipino workers [...]

Dennis Jay Santos
Inquirer.net
DAVAO CITY, Philippines—Majority of the recently repatriated 37 overseas Filipino workers (OFW) from Jordan said they were forced to admit crimes because Philippine Embassy officials told them it was the only way they could go home.
“Umamin na lang daw kami, para makauwi na (They told us to just admit it so we could [...]

Philippine Star
Senate President Manuel Villar Jr. welcomed yesterday five overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who arrived in Manila from Jordan via Kuwait Airways.
“We are glad that our workers are finally home,” said Villar, who has formed an OFW helpline to help distressed OFWs.
The five OFWs were identified as Karen Antero Magno, May Ann Tabundo Abat, Lynn [...]

Roberto R. Romulo
Philippine Star
The last time I wrote about this subject I said that “it’s about time the private sector weighed in on the important topic of labor mobility.” Well, they have; and in the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) in particular, wherein I represent the Philippines together with Doris Magsaysay Ho and Arthur Ty, [...]

Veronica Uy
INQUIRER.net
MANILA, Philippines—Foreign workers in South Korea, including Filipinos, can now work for up to five straight years, up from three years, without taking the compulsory one-month vacation outside the country, a Philippine diplomat said.
Philippine Ambassador to South Korea Luis Cruz told INQUIRER.net foreign workers’ extension of stay in the East Asian country took effect [...]

Marge C. Enriquez
Philippine Daily Inquirer
MANILA, Philippines—Monaco-based designer Josef Crisanto was a sickly child who grew up in a dysfunctional family environment in Davao. Since he was too weak to play outdoors, his mother supplied him with paper, pens and crayons. A Piscean, he lived in his own world of imagination which was reflected in his [...]

James Konstantin Galvez
Manila Times
An official of an international real estate services company has revealed that retirees and overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) remained to be the most active buyers of residential property in the country.
In a speech during the recent Asia Pacific Marketing Power and Sales Effectiveness Mike Mabutol, director of the CB Richard Ellis (CBRE) [...]

Llanesca T. Panti
Manila Times
Vice President Noli de Castro has appealed to the Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Abdul Razak to defer the mass deportation of undocumented overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Sabah until after Ramadan.
“In the spirit of humanitarian concern, I wish to appeal to your excellency to stay the implementation [...]

James Konstantin Galvez
Manila Times
An official of an international real estate services company has revealed that retirees and overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) remained to be the most active buyers of residential property in the country.
In a speech during the recent Asia Pacific Marketing Power and Sales Effectiveness Mike Mabutol, director of the CB Richard Ellis (CBRE) [...]