OFW FORUM Jun Concepcion Taking advantage of people desperate to take up high-paying jobs abroad is as easy as grabbing a piece of candy or lollipop from a one-year- old child and simply walking away. It doesn’t really take much to lure people keen to escape the hardships of carving a living in...
OFW FORUM Jun Concepcion Numerous OFWs are overjoyed whenever they are addressed by this seemingly magical phrase – modern heroes of the land. And they are driven into a mass hysteria and frenzy if they are fed key phrases apparently aimed to give them a euphoric high not necessarily fueled by...
(Photo from Unsplash) The conduct of End-of-School-Year (EOSY) rites should be free from any electioneering and partisan political activity, the Department of Education (DepEd) said. In a virtual press briefing on Friday, March 11, DepEd Assistant Secretary for Curriculum and Instruction Alma Torio...
loren2 House Deputy Speaker Loren Legarda, who is now seeking a Senate comeback, will not take part in “The Rundown 2022: A Youth Oriented Senate Elections Forum.” This was announced on Friday, March 11, by the organizer of the forum which is backed by the Commission on Elections (Comelec). The...
OFW FORUM Jun Concepcion Distressed OFWs are often a pathetic and heart-rending lot. Seriously maltreated OFWs in Saudi Arabia, Qatar or Jordan can’t end immediately their misery and go back home even if some have reached their breaking point. More often than not, they suffer for months before...
OFW FORUM Jun Concepcion The pathetic plight of Filipinos caught and still trapped in war-torn Ukraine is by no means the first time for overseas Filipinos to find themselves in civil wars abroad. Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, name any other strife-torn part of the world, and chances are Filipinos are...
Vice presidential bet Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio offered “no comment” on the importance of electoral debates, as well as the tirades made by candidate Walden Bello against her and presidential candidate Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr. Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio (Noel...
The Philippine Athletics Track and Field Association (Patafa) will be holding a series of performance trials as part of its selection process for the national team bound for the 31st Southeast Asian Games in Hanoi, Vietnam this May. The first tournament is scheduled Wednesday and Thursday at the...
OFW FORUM Jun Concepcion Strategies and measures that the government now uses to bring home Filipinos in war-torn countries, including those in Ukraine that Russia may attack soon, border on laughable and absurd. Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Brigido Dulay’s remarks to the media last week sums...
If he hadn't become a boxer, PROMDI presidential bet Senator Manny Pacquiao would have been a rebel fighting for justice and equality for poor Filipinos in the mountains of Mindanao. Senator Manny Pacquiao at Peace Forum Pacquiao made this candid admission of how his mind worked during the years of...
The camp of presidential candidate Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. has yet to confirm his participation in the election forum organized by the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines Episcopal Commission on Social Communications and Public Affairs Committee for the May 2022 polls. Photo...
OFW Forum Jun Concepcion Returning home for good from overseas and finding a steady replacement income need not be a Mission Impossible. While work abroad often entails a monthly salary substantially higher than what’s available back home, returning home need not always mean dire economic...
