The Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) has set up an employment facilitation desk in Tokyo and Osaka in a bid to maximize the assistance to overseas Filipino workers in Japan which is one of the Philippines' key labor markets. DMW Officer-in-Charge Hans Leo J. Cacdac said the Japan Employment...
Health workers from Philippine Orthopedic Center (POC) and National Children’s Hospital (NCH) staged a "snake rally and noise barrage protest" on Dec. 5 to demand a salary hike and the release of the “long overdue” health emergency allowance (HEA) and performance-based bonus (PBB). Photo from...
The House plenary hall (Contributed photo) The measure that seeks to expand the scope of legal aid extended to overseas Filipinos and overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) has been approved on third and final reading in the House of Representatives. "Our...
OFW Party-list Rep. Marissa "Del Mar" Magsino (Facebook) President Marcos displayed "strong leadership" in his decision to skip the World Climate Action Summit (COP28), according to OFW Party-list Rep. Marissa "Del Mar" Magsino. "One of the beacons of hope...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (left), President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. (Speaker’s office) House Speaker Martin Romualdez has commended on Wednesday, Nov. 29 the Marcos administration for successfully effecting the release of the two...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (Speaker’s office) Hamas' release of its Filipino hostage Gelienor "Jimmy" Pacheco has increased the Philippines' hopes that it would soon locate a missing overseas Filipino worker (OFW). House Speaker Martin Romualdez had...
The House plenary hall (Contributed photo) A measure expanding the use of the Legal Assistance Fund for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) has been approved on second reading by the House of Representatives. Passed via simple voice vote (ayes vs. nayes) during...
​The family of one of the Filipinos killed during Hamas' attack on Israel will be receiving continuing assistance from the Israeli government, the Israeli Embassy in Manila said Monday, Nov. 6. This was announced as Israeli Ambassador to the Philippines Ilan Fluss and Consul Moti Cohen...
BACOLOD CITY – The Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) has assured the family of slain overseas Filipino worker (OFW) Loreta Alacre that they will receive all the necessary assistance pursuant to the mandate of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. DMW Undersecretary Hans Leo Cacdac (left) and Mayor...
BACOLOD CITY – An overseas Filipino worker (OFW) killed in the ongoing war between Hamas and Israel was laid to rest in a public cemetery in Barangay Caduha-an, Cadiz City, Negros Occidental on Sunday, November 5. A Mass was offered to Loreta “Daday” V. Alacre at the Saint Peregrine Parish in...
BINMALEY, Pangasinan (PNA) – The bereaved family of Angelyn Aguirre, the 32-year-old overseas Filipino worker who was killed while protecting her elderly ward during the Hamas attack in Kibbutz Kfar Aza in Israel on October 7, will receive financial assistance from the governments of the...
A Filipina caregiver in Israel thought it was already her time when Hamas launched a surprise attack on the Jewish state early October, but her instinct to just surrender to the militants' demands saved her from getting killed. Camille Jesalva, an overseas Filipino worker (OFW), was spending her...
