Hinagpis ng mga OFW

Kahindik-hindik ang nangyari kay Asria Samad Abdul, 34 taong gulang na overseas foreign worker (OFW) sa Kuwait. Ayun sa report, nakita ang bangkay ni Asria, na tubong Datu Odin Sinsuat sa Maguindanao, sa disyerto ng Kabd na maraming saksak. Mukhang tinurture muna siya tapos sinagassan ng kotse para kunwari namatay siya dahil nasagasaan. Nahuli na [...]

July 20, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: Abante, Human Rights, Labor  13 Comments

Kalbaryo ni Cielo sa DFA

Update, April 5, 2010: I just got this text message from Ed Malaya, DFA spokesman: “The DFA OUMWA office has initiated an internal investigation on the complaints aired by Cielo Corcuera. “Initial findings indicate that the documents pertaining to the last salary and death benefits of Arlin Bello we acted upon but inadvertently sent to [...]

April 4, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: Abante, Labor  17 Comments

Poll bets vow spending more for OFWs

by Ruben Jeffrey Asuncion OFW Journalism Consortium IF elected, presidential candidates Gilberto Teodoro Jr., Manuel Villar and Richard Gordon would throw cash and strike deals with labor receiving countries in relation to overseas employment of Filipinos. Former Defense Secretary Teodoro and Senator Villar, however, failed to say where they would get the money for the [...]

March 5, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: 2010 elections, Labor  31 Comments

Pinoy Expat/OFW blog awards

Mamayang gabi, malalaman ang mga nanalo sa pangalawang Pinoy Expat/OFW Blog Awards. Gaganapin ang awarding ceremonies sa Philamlife Theater sa U.N. Avenue, Manila, 6 p.m. Kahanga-hanga itong project na itinataguyod ng grupo nina Kenji Solis na ang pangunahing layuin ay magbigay pugay sa ating mga kababayang sa ibang bansa na siya ngayon ang nagbubuhay ng [...]

December 27, 2009  Tags:   Posted in: Abante, Labor  2 Comments

Finalists in the 2009 Pinoy Expats/OFW Blog Awards

Congratulations to this year’s finalists for the 2009 Pinoy Expats/OFW Blog Awards (PEBA). This is the second year of this laudable undertaking being spearheaded by Kenji Solis and his associates. Please visit the site or simply click on the logo above or on the left side of this blog to know more about the contest [...]

November 7, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: General  9 Comments

First batch of nurses, caregivers leaves for Japan under JPEPA

By Tessa Jamandre VERA Files With tears in their eyes, Vilma Balatbat, 39, and her husband tightly embraced each other, knowing it would be some time before they would be together again. Last Saturday, Balatbat and 269 other Filipino nurses and caregivers, most of them mothers, left for Japan, making up the first batch of [...]

May 12, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Labor  63 Comments

Pagwawaldas ng pera sa Dubai

Kunwari sa mga press release ng Malacanang ay inaasikaso ni Arroyo ang paghihirap ng mamayang Pilipino sa gitna ng krisis pang-ekonomiya kung saan libo-libong OFW ang nawawalan ng trabaho. Pero sa totoo lang patuloy ang pagwaldas ng pera ng taumbayan sa sariling luho kasama na ng kanyang mga alagad. Sumulat sa aking blog si Ares [...]

April 14, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Foreign Affairs, Governance, Web Links  16 Comments

Mali ang minura ni Tsao

Huwag magkamaling pumunta dito sa Pilipinas itong si Chip Tsao at babalatan siyang buhay. Itong si Chip Tsao na taga Hongkong ay sumulat sa isang Hongkong magazine at galit na galit siya sa mga Pilipino dahil kini-claim ng Pilipinas ang ilang isla sa South China Sea. Sa pag-iisip kasi ng China, sila ang may-ari ng [...]

March 31, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Governance, Web Links  114 Comments

‘A nation of servants’

Do we deserve this? The war at home by Chip Tsao HK Magazine The Russians sank a Hong Kong freighter last month, killing the seven Chinese seamen on board. We can live with that—Lenin and Stalin were once the ideological mentors of all Chinese people. The Japanese planted a flag on Diàoyú Island. That’s no [...]

March 29, 2009  Tags:   Posted in: General  179 Comments

Pagpupugay sa OFW

Itong pagpupugay sa mga OFW ay pinadala sa akin ni Magno Rivera na ngayon ay nasa Saudi. Sabi niya pinadala raw sa kanya ni Frankie Villaflor. Hindi mayaman ang OFW – Akala ng marami sa ating kapag OFW o nasa abroad ay mayaman na. Hindi totoo yun. A regular OFW might earn from P50K-P300K per [...]

February 1, 2009  Tags:   Posted in: Economy, Web Links  65 Comments