The OFW Hospital in San Fernando, Pampanga caters to migrant workers and their families. (Photo: DMW) The Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) is planning significant improvements to the OFW Hospital in San Fernando, Pampanga as an increasing number of migrant workers and their families make use of...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian has sought an investigation into the implications of a 17-percent reciprocal tariff imposed on the Philippines by the United States, the country’s largest export market. Gatchalian said it is important for the government to ascertain the potential impact of the...
Senator Raffy Tulfo has called on the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) and the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) to immediately investigate and resolve the reported suicide incidents among overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Hong Kong. Sen. Raffy Tulfo urged the Department of...
Philippine Ambassador to the United States Jose Manuel “Babe” Romualdez on Monday, April 21, denied reports that Filipinos are being sent back to the Philippines amid United States President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. Philippine Ambassador to Washington Babe Romualdez raises...
Ten more Filipinos were repatriated from Cambodia on Sunday, April 20, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said. Ten Filipino repatriates arrive in Manila on April 20, 2025 from Oddar Meanchey Province in Cambodia. (Photo courtesy of DFA) The DFA said the Filipinos came from Oddar Meanchey...
Twenty-six Filipinos were repatriated from Oddar Meanchey Province in Cambodia on Wednesday, April 16, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA). Repatriated Filipinos arrive in the Philippines from Oddar Meanchey Province, Cambodia on April 16, 2025. (Photo courtesy of DFA) Although the DFA did not...
Former DILG secretary Benhur Abalos (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) The "outdated, inefficient, and unnecessarily burdensome" Overseas Employment Certificate (OEC) and contract verification processes must be overhauled. Thus, said Alyansa...
The Philippine Embassy in Rome, which has jurisdiction over Filipinos and Philippine affairs in Malta, warned overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) against using their passports as collaterals for loan. Philippine passport (MB File Photo) In an advisory, the embassy reminded Filipinos that...
From left to right: Mr. Steve Agius, Chief Executive Officer of Identità, Malta’s identity and migration agency; Ms. Stephanie Bason, Director General for Employment at the Ministry for Home Affairs, Security and Employment; Patricia Yvonne Caunan, Undersecretary for Policy and International...
Navotas City lone district Rep. Toby Tiangco (Facebook) The Alyansa para sa Bagong Pilipinas senatorial ticket is urging overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to go in droves to designated polling areas upon the start of overseas absentee...
The charges against the 17 Filipinos arrested in Qatar for supposed illegal assembly have been officially dismissed, Malacañang announced Monday, April 7. Philippine Embassy in Qatar Communications Undersecretary Claire Castro said this following the meeting of President Marcos with Qatari...
(File photo) The Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) said it is ready to set in motion a contingency plan to keep Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) in Taiwan safe amid an escalation of tension due to Chinese activities in the self-ruled island. DMW Secretary Hans Cacdac said he has coordinated with...