Philippines Today

by JEREMAIAH M. OPINIANO www.ofwjournalism.net LOS BANOS, LAGUNA (OFW Journalism Consortium)–A TWO-STOREY town hall here is a reminder that political will, when wield, gets results. For instance, whenever fish traders like Clarita…

by CANDICE Y. CEREZO www.ofwjournalism.net STO. DOMINGO, ILOCOS SUR (OFW Journalism Consortium)–SQUASH, for some Europeans, refers to the sport. For farmers here, it’s the raw material gestating a business partnership with overseas…

by WILLIAM ALZONA www.ofwjournalism.net MANILA (OFW Journalism Consortium)—GIVEN the shortage of maritime officers for international vessels, the manning industry is turning to re-package what its players say is a “wimpy” image of…

by JEREMAIAH M. OPINIANO www.ofwjournalism.net (Editor’s note: The identities of women interviewed are protected in this story.) QUEZON CITY (OFW Journalism Consortium)–FOR nearly a decade, more than six thousand Filipino women are…

by JEREMAIAH M. OPINIANO www.ofwjournalism.net MANDALUYONG CITY (OFW Journalism Consortium, Vol. 6, Nos. 10-11, Dec. 23)–FOR over 20 years, surgeon Domingo Alvear eludes the chilly American winter and warms up in motherland…

by JEREMAIAH M. OPINIANO www.ofwjournalism.net MANILA (OFW Journalism Consortium)–CAN you monetize a child’s separation for more than a year from her mother working overseas? Such question has not only kept both mother…

by JEREMAIAH M. OPINIANO www.ofwjournalism.net LOS BANOS, LAGUNA (OFW Journalism Consortium)–RECENT central bank data doesn’t bode too well for those selling cars and houses to families of overseas Filipino workers. Majority of…

by JEREMAIAH M. OPINIANO www.ofwjournalism.net MANILA (OFW Journalism Consortium)—DATA per country from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas showed that the United States, Japan, and Norway are the top three remittance points for…

by JEREMAIAH M. OPINIANO www.ofwjournalism.net MANILA (OFW Journalism Consortium)—DESPITE decreasing wage levels, ban on deployment, and nationalization of labor markets, four Middle East destination countries of Filipino temporary contract workers posted the…

by JEREMAIAH M. OPINIANO www.ofwjournalism.net (Editor’s note: The real identities of women in this story are kept confidential as they requested) QUEZON CITY (OFW Journalism Consortium)–TWENTY-year-old Rita pointed to the words stretched…

by JOYCE ANNE B. ROBIÑO www.ofwjournalism.net MANILA (OFW Journalism Consortium)—THE rising number of overseas Filipino workers with the human immunodeficiency virus hasn’t rattled government and UN executives who assert the country will…

by JEREMAIAH M. OPINIANO www.ofwjournalism.net MANILA (OFW Journalism Consortium, Vo. 6, Nos. 8-9, Dec. 16)—DESPITE increasing risks in host countries and disasters in the Philippines, Filipinos abroad still feel safer that remittances…

by ISAGANI DE LA PAZ www.ofwjournalism.net MANILA (OFW Journalism Consortium, Vol. 6 Nos. 8-9, Dec. 16)—TWO Filipino-American analysts cited imbalanced services and weak state capacity as some of the factors fettering the…