by ISAGANI DE LA PAZwww.ofwjournalism.net MANILA – ACROSS the East Asia region sweeps the wind of prosperity and cash remittances as well as knowledge capital by migrant workers has helped economies become…
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Filipina kidnapped in Nigeria feared dead
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — THE first Filipina to be abducted in Nigeria is feared dead after her kidnappers called up her husband to say she tried to fight them off and jumped…
Maids don’t like TESDA training
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — SKILLS training for maids is not mandatory, but is designed to help enhance their competence and be able to land better jobs abroad, the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration…
Kidnapped Filipinos in Nigeria to be released
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — THE 24 abducted Filipino seamen in Nigeria remain healthy and could be released soon, an official said yesterday. Foreign Affairs spokesman Eduardo Malaya said the Philippine envoy to…
OWWA exec says religious ties can’t protect women
by PATRICIA MARCELO and ISAGANI DE LA PAZwww.ofwjournalism.net MANILA — A LINE in the International Declaration of Human Rights wasn’t able to protect her from a rapist, nor could the teachings of…
Stranded Pinoys in Lebanon still traded, NGO says
by ISAGANI DE LA PAZwww.ofwjournalism.net QUEZON CITY—FILIPINO workers, mostly women, in Lebanon are still being traded for new employees after getting sidetracked from work when fighting broke out in September, advocates said….
Failures in gov’t lending project for OFW groups cited
by CANDICE Y. CEREZOwww.ofwjournalism.net QUEZON CITY – THE bankruptcy of roughly 200 government-funded livelihood groups of overseas Filipino workers and their families reveals major errors in a project that an OFW leader…
Pinoys bare heroic life as former modern-day heroes
by KRISTY ANNE TOPACIO-MANALAYSAY (intern)www.ofwjournalism.net IMUS, Cavite–FORMER seafarer Rolando Sarno is riding on a new wave: that of the daily realities of managing a business. Using a scoop from galvanized iron, Sarno…
New course for seafarers seen costly
by LEO J. SANTIAGOwww.ofwjournalism.net MANILA—SO many training courses yet so little to gain. This is what some seafarers are saying, four months before a few of them would be required to go…
Teacher culls bar-girl work to flay US anti-trafficking
by JEREMAIAH M. OPINIANOwww.ofwjournalism.net SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, USA—WHEN it comes to issues of trafficking in women, University of California-Davis professor Rhacel Parreñas should be taken seriously: she has been in the eddy…
Study to link remittance, Filipino spirituality
by JEREMAIAH M. OPINIANOwww.ofwjournalism.net SAN JOSE, California, USA–CRISANTA Allas’s arm shot forward to stop the roll of an empty softdrink can –one of several garbage the 78-year-old Filipino picks up so she…
UN body sings ‘diaspora investment’ tune
by WILLIAM ALZONAwww.ofwjournalism.net MANILA—LATE as they are, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development is singing a familiar tune: that remittances could be a development tool. Calling it “diaspora investment,” the…
Issues spook overseas voting sign-up in US
by JEREMAIAH M. OPINIANOwww.ofwjournalism.net SAN FRANCISCO, USA (October 31) — A HALLOWEEN chill hovered on the lobby of the Philippine consulate here as the last registrant for voting in the Philippines stepped…
Skepticism greets CFO task force
by JULIE JAVELLANA-SANTOS www.ofwjournalism.net MANILA—ANOTHER task force created by a government agency was met with skepticism by migrants’ rights advocates. Reeling from reports of undocumented workers jumping to their deaths to escape…
Police says going high-tech vs. illegal-recruiters
by WILLIAM IMPERIAL www.ofwjournalism.net QUEZON CITY—POLICE officials in one of the key metropolitan cities said they are going to be aggressive in weeding out illegal recruiters, using surveillance cameras and other advanced…