Senate Majority Leader Joel Villanueva on Sunday, April 30 called on the government to thoroughly study the measures that seek to determine the reasonable living wage for the country’s workers. Villanueva made the call ahead of the nation’s Labor Day activities on Monday, May 1. ...
Senator Grace Poe on Sunday, April 30 urged the government to regularly review its deployment policies on overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to ensure their safety and well-being. Poe made the call even as the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) were...
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) said on Saturday, April 29, that it is ready to assist eight Filipinos returning from conflict-torn Sudan. Courtesy of DFA "If there is a requirement for temporary shelter we will bring them to the Mandaluyong office of the Inter-Agency Council...
Senator Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada on Wednesday, April 26 urged the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) to ensure that overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Sudan who have been displaced in the armed struggle in Sudan would be given livelihood assistance. Estrada, chairperson of...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Tuesday, April 25 called on the Departments of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and the Migrant Workers (DMW) to exert all efforts in repatriating all Filipinos trapped in Sudan amid the heightened hostilities in the African nation. At the same time, the senator urged...
Three Filipinos have already been evacuated from Sudan and over a hundred will follow after internal clashes among its troops erupted, an official of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Monday, April 24. DFA Undersecretary Eduardo Jose de Vega said three female Filipinos already left the...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. assured the public that the government was doing everything to ensure the safety of 300 Filipinos trapped amid the clashes in Sudan. *President Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr. (Malacañang photo)* In a video message, the President said the government was...
Filipinos might soon be able to opt for Czech Republic as their destination for overseas jobs after Prime Minister Petr Fiala revealed on Monday, April 17, the possibility of the central European country opening up to Filipino migrant workers. (From left) Czech Republic Prime Minister Petr Fiala...
The Chinese Embassy in Manila on Sunday, April 16, accused reports of misquoting or misinterpreting the remarks made by Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines Huang Xilian about the fate of some 150,000 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Taiwan amid the intensified Philippine-United States (US)...
Of approximately two million OFWs deployed to different countries, more than half are women—here’s a bittersweet story from one of them By: Jelica R. Enriquez I was excited to come home. These were my first thoughts when I boarded the plane on my return flight to Manila. The thrill of traveling...
GCash Overseas Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) approves the beta launch of GCash Overseas. This allows Filipinos in Japan, Australia, and Italy to sign up for GCash even without a Philippine SIM. Now, the Philippines' leading finance app is the first and only e-wallet that can be used abroad with...
Filipinos can now use the mobile wallet GCash abroad, with international SIM cards. This developed after the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) approved the beta launch of GCash Overseas, allowing Filipinos in Japan, Australia, and Italy to sign up for the mobile wallet, even without a Philippine...
