9 September 2010-A new deployment scheme used by some Philippine Overseas Employment Agency (POEA)-licensed agencies was exposed in Singapore last week when 16 documented overseas Filipino workers were prevented from boarding their connecting flights to Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, and Riyadh for using unconfirmed electronic tickets (e-tickets). Philippine Ambassador Minda Calaguian-Cruz disclosed that 16 ...
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Malacanang cut more than the legal assistance fund of distressed overseas Filipino workers, it also slashed by almost half this year’s foreign affairs’ P200-million budget for overall assistance to OFWs down to P109.3 million next year, it was learned Thursday.
As can be inferred from the recent row created by pilots of Philippine Airlines accepting jobs from foreign airlines, many of our overseas workers are definitely not coming from the poorest households of the Philippines. In fact, a study commissioned by the Asian Development Bank about Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWS) already confirmed that it is not the poorest of the poor who actually seek ...
A teacher of Thai massage was arrested in Bangkok's Bang Khen district accused of duping people of money with faulty promises that she could find them jobs in other countries, police said yesterday. However, the suspect denied the charge.
