29 Outstanding Overseas Filipinos and Foreign Organizations Chosen for the 2012 Presidential Awards In time for the celebration of the Month of Overseas Filipinos, President Benigno S. Aquino III will honor 29…
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CFO Conducts Manila Consultative Meeting for December Confab on Migration Trends
The Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO), in cooperation with the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) and with the support from the European Union’s (EU) Initiative “Migration European Union Expertise” (MIEUX),…
Metropolis Asia Launches Website
Metropolis Asia Launches Website Metropolis Asia is now online! The website www.metropolisasia.org, recently launched by the Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO), was created in collaboration with the other members of the Metropolis…
CFO Supports Passage of the Amended Overseas Absentee Voting Act
The Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO) supports the passage of Senate Bill 3312 or An Act Amending Republic Act No. 9189 otherwise known as The Overseas Absentee Voting (OAV) Act of 2003….
Commission on Filipinos Overseas schedules Second Global Summit on February 2013
The Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO) announced that it will be holding the 2nd Global Summit of Filipinos in the Diaspora at Dusit Thani Hotel in Makati City on February 25-27, 2013….
Absentee voter registration by Oct.30
Press Release No. 77-2012 Embassy Reminds Filipinos To Register As Overseas Absentee Voters. The Philippine Embassy in Riyadh reiterates its invitation to all Filipinos in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to register…
1st Europe-wide Conference of Overseas Filipinos Ends with a Global D2D Declaration
The first ever global conference of Filipinos in Europe with its thrust of Diaspora to Dialogue (D2D) was held from September 27 to 29 at the Aran Mantegna Hotel in Rome Italy….
Townmates abroad watching over hometowns, local governments want to be invo
MANILA — ON the second decade of a landmark Philippine law granting local autonomy to cities, provinces and municipalities, constituents who became overseas Filipinos are watching over how their places of birth…
Local governments getting involved in serving overseas Filipinos
MANILA—THE PUBLIC’s accustomed to seeing acronyms such as POEA, OWWA, DOLE, and DFA in news items whenever there are issues facing overseas Filipinos. But slowly emerging is an acronym that is becoming…
OWWA officials told to take note of new law if agency’s ‘a GOCC’
by JEREMAIAH M. OPINIANOwww.ofwjournalism.net MANILA—WHAT type of an agency is the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA)? If officials of the agency answer that OWWA is a government-owned-and-controlled corporation (GOCC), then the world’s…
Can local private sector help reverse PHL’s migration addiction?
by JEREMAIAH M. OPINIANOwww.ofwjournalism.net MANILA—SOME of President Aquino III’s remarks in his recent State of the Nation Address are inciting an aspiration that going abroad for work will not be a forced…
Opening of U.S. H-1B cap season to kick off hiring of foreign workers
By Alex P. Vidal/PNS US-based companies may resume hiring foreign workers in specialty occupations as the United States Citizenship Immigration Services (USCIS) announced the opening of H-1B fiscal year 2010 cap season….
Nonprofit says business key to regulate migration to Sabah
by JEREMAIAH M. OPINIANO OFW Journalism Consortium 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…
Many displaced OFWs come from RP’s top migration regions-report
by JEREMAIAH M. OPINIANO OFW Journalism Consortium 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,…
OFWs default on crisis-support loans
by JEREMAIAH M. OPINIANO OFW Journalism Consortium 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. Zenobia…