President Rodrigo Duterte lauded the treatment of Israel to overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), saying that the Holy Land was among the places where Filipinos are treated as human beings.
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Read moreTHE Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) temporarily suspended the implementation of the “escrow fund” requirement for all foreign recruitment agencies (FRAs) hiring and deploying domestic workers to Kuwait. POEA Administrator Bernard Olalia said on Tuesday that the suspension of the $10,000 minimum escrow deposit requirement for all FRAs in Kuwait was because the government wanted it implemented […]
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Read moreTHE Department of Foreign Affairs on Friday appealed to some 400,000 undocumented Filipinos in Malayasia to avail of its voluntary deportation program, which would end this August. Philippine Ambassador to Kuala Lumpur Charles Jose, in a statement, also assured Filipinos who have not availed of legal immigration status assistance from the embassy on their return home through the […]
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A SOCIAL media celebrity in Kuwait is under fire for comments against Filipina domestic helpers in the Gulf state. The video, which was uploaded on Facebook by Turkey’s English-language channel TRT World on Friday, has over 520,000 views. Sondos Alqattan, who is also a makeup artist, complained about Filipina domestic workers getting a day off […]
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