(File photo) A total of 213 Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) in Lebanon have secured their travel documents and are set to return home amid escalating tensions following intensified Israeli airstrikes on Hezbollah positions, the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) said on Friday, Oct. 11. In an...
OFW Party-list Rep. Marissa "Del Mar" Magsino (Facebook) OFW Party-list Rep. Marissa “Del Mar” Magsino has expressed alarm over the report that 20 Filipino women were reportedly brought by a Philippine agency to Cambodia to become...
ACT-CIS Party-list Rep. Erwin Tulfo (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) A P150,000 cash assistance awaits each overseas Filipino worker (OFW) who will return home from Lebanon--even temporarily--as a result of the ongoing violence...
President Marcos said the government is working with different agencies to craft a plan to repatriate more than 400 Filipinos who are willing to return home amid the ongoing conflict in Lebanon. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (PCO) Marcos said this in an interview on the sidelines of the...
Despite the ongoing events for the 44th and 45th ASEAN Summit and Related Summits in Laos, President Marcos has convened a Zoom meeting with relevant government agencies and directed them to mobilize resources for the safe and timely repatriation of Filipinos affected by the crisis in the Middle...
Filipino workers in Laos were encouraged to continue being ambassadors of goodwill for the Philippines in the foreign land. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. meets the Filipino community in Laos on Oct. 8, 2024. (Photo courtesy of Malacañang) In his message during a meeting with the...
President Marcos has urged Filipinos in Lebanon and Israel to return to the country while flights are still available amid the tensions in the Middle East. "We hope that you will avail yourselves of our repatriation program while flights are available," Marcos told Filipinos in Lebanon and Israel...
President Marcos has ordered government agencies to provide a whole-of-government assistance to Filipino workers coming from Lebanon. Every worker is expected to receive about P150,000 financial aid from the Department of Migrant Workers (DWM) and Overseas Workers Welfare Administration...
Senator Risa Hontiveros is set to meet at least 50 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who have reportedly suffered at the hands of their employers on an official trip to the Middle East, particularly to the State of Qatar. In a statement on Wednesday, Oct. 2, Hontiveros called for stronger safety...
Filipinos in Lebanon were urged to consider leaving the foreign country while commercial flights are still available. The Philippine Embassy in Lebanon made the advisory following the "unprecedented explosions of beepers" in Lebanon on Sept. 17 and 18, which killed 11 people and injured 2,800...
By Derco Rosal Working abroad will become “a choice rather than a necessity”—a promise the Marcos administration made in December 2022. It was in the same year that Aileen Cerilo, a Filipino teacher, decided to fly back to China for a better job opportunity. Recently, the Philippine...
Flag of Ireland (Unsplash) Filipino diplomats should aggressively pursue bilateral agreements for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in countries like Ireland where the Philippine government has no existing formal...
