Contract for overseas work over a five-year period benefited more rehired land-based overseas Filipino workers, government data reveal. The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) five-year data also revealed that last year, the number of re-hired land-based OFWs reached a five-year ...

... Pacquiao is the Philippines. And on the social Web -- where the often overlooked Filipino diaspora gather on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube ... named BatJay, who describes himself as "an overseas filipino worker in california" in his Twitter feed, ... 1 percent of the American population. In some estimates, there are more Filipino Americans than Chinese Americans in the U.S. -- a shocking ...

... , the powder was hard. I tossed it the same day my wife arrived. Teabags One of my sisters-in-law is living with her soon-to-be husband. He spent months (a couple of years, I think) as an overseas Filipino worker in Qatar. Each time he returned for vacation, he brought something back for me. The last time, he brought back a ...

By Karen Flores – Money sent home by overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) may no longer be one of the country’s main growth drivers in the next decade, according to the top ... them start their own businesses back home. “We should convince the migrant worker to save a portion of his remittances so he can put up his own business or livelihood. Let’s ...

... and local governments to take steps to monitor the hiring and treatment of overseas-trained teachers. In addition, the union is recommending that ... of Labor Oct. 20, a company that recruited Filipino teachers to work in Louisiana schools cheated those ... allegations, backed by the facts, show these teachers to be victims of worker abuses like the ones in our students’ history books: indentured ...