OFW Corner

SURREY, British Columbia -- Foreign low skilled workers intending to work in Canada should not pay recruitment fees to their employers because it is illegal under the law.  [Read More]

DAVAO CITY - A NONPROFIT group called on the business sector in Mindanao to get involved in the migration process to Sabah so as to avoid labor abuses and sordid tales of workers in Malaysia.  [Read More]

PASIG CITY - MANY of the overseas Filipino workers displaced last year by the global economic crisis, and who availed of government's employment and livelihood assistance packages, are from Calabarzon, Central Luzon, and Central Visayas.  [Read More]

DAVAO CITY - A GOVERNMENT executive here warns of an increasing number of overseas Filipino workers defaulting on their loans from an economic crisis credit facility.  [Read More]

MANILA - MORE families of overseas Filipino workers are spending less on food and more on health, a study by the Asian Development Bank revealed.  [Read More]

IBAAN, Batangas -- A SCUFFED brown wooden bench in front of a school serves as a throne of the struggles endured by women left behind by migrant spouses.  [Read More]

PRAGUE (PRAHA), Czech Republic - THEY stepped outside the moss-covered stone-church in cadence with the white flakes falling languorously from a mint blue sky.  [Read More]

MANILA-PHILIPPINE regions with higher growth rates used remittances for development efficiently, a paper by a University of Santo Tomas economist finds.  [Read More]

MAKATI CITY - THREE candidates gunning for the presidency promised if elected, they will throw cash and strike deals with labor receiving countries in relation to overseas employment of Filipinos.  [Read More]

CEBU CITY - MIGRANT Filipinos continue to burn the passion of city sisterhood through a fire truck, which is expected to arrive here after a 15,000-kilometer journey.  [Read More]