The Department of Foreign Affairs is set to raise to No. 3 (voluntary repatriation) the alert level for the over 470 remaining overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Iraq, citing the “escalating bombing incidents and the apparent diminution of security” in the war-torn country.
The Department of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday confirmed the death of two Filipinos in the collapse of a residential building in Beirut recently.
Saudi Arabia is expected to lift within the month the suspension it imposed last year on the hiring of Filipino maids by the Middle East kingdom, a labor official said Tuesday.
A migrants rights group on Wednesday scored the Philippine government’s “snail-paced repatriation” of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) from Syria, which has been wracked by civil unrest.
The founders of Neve Shaanan, a neighborhood in southern Tel Aviv, planned their streets in the shape of a seven-branched candelabra — a symbol of their Jewish faith. Ninety years later, the streets are full of Christmas decorations, reflecting a flowering of Christianity in Israel’s economic and cultural capital.
There are only a few women who have the courage to speak out and be a catalyst for change here. One of them is Lalaine Chu–Benitez, the voice of the empowered Filipina in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Among the poorest of the poor is where Father Theo Vlugt feels at home. “My Big Boss says in the Bible: What you have done to the poorest of my people, you have done to me,” he says, in his native Amsterdam accent.
From Nov. 18 to 20, three teenage boys aspiring to be robotics engineers trekked to Abu Dhabi to compete in the World Robot Olympiad (WRO). It was a much-awaited trip for the boys, who put in hours upon hours of whatever spare time they had left after school, as well as on Saturdays and Sundays, in preparation for the competition.
When I look back, the warning signs of chaos to come were there right from the start.
AMMAN, Jordan—Jordan has some of the region’s most robust laws on paper to protect migrant domestic workers, but human rights groups said Tuesday its failure to enforce them leads to continued abuse. The New York-based Human Rights Watch and the Jordanian legal aid center, Tamkeen, said many of the country’s 70,000 domestic workers from Sri [...]
Filipino Christian leaders are opposing the formation of a Palestinian state in which Israel’s West Bank and east Jerusalem would comprise the new territory and have asked the Aquino government to vote against its full membership in the United Nations.
The estimated 130,000 Filipino nurses in Saudi Arabia are expected to bear the brunt of the kingdom’s “Saudization” policy, a migrant rights group said Tuesday. According to Migrante-Middle East (M-ME) regional coordinator John Leonard Monterona, a news report said the Saudi Ministry of Health (MOH) planned to hire local nurses in all its medical facilities. [...]
