Hundreds of overseas Filipino workers in New Zealand lost their jobs just before Christmas and are asking the Philippine government for continuing financial assistance as they look for new jobs this New Year.
Mark Darren and Mark Danielle are overjoyed to finally see their mother, Mary Jane Veloso, five years after their last visit.
Migrante International (MI) castigated Overseas Workers Welfare Administration executive director Arnell Ignacio on his statement against Filipinos who are in trouble abroad.
In this list, Bulatlat highlights women migrant rights activists who rose to the challenge of standing behind beleaguered Filipino migrant workers and the families they left behind.
Mary Jane was transferred here in 2021. This is the third prison where she has been detained since Indonesia President Joko Widodo granted temporary reprieve just hours before her supposed execution in April 2015.
Sa bawat kaso ng pagpatay, deployment ban ang tugon ng gobyerno ng Pilipinas. Ngunit paglipas ng ilang buwan, binabawi muli ng Pilipinas ang ban at pumapasok sa Memorandum of Understanding sa mga host country at muling umiikot ang siklo ng pagpapadala ng mga OFW sa ibang bansa.
When the global pandemic reached Hong Kong, the once busy streets in Chater Road became quiet.
Nanawagan kay Pangulong Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. ang mga Overseas Filipino Workers sa Taiwan na bigyang pansin ang kanilang kaligtasan sa gitna ng tumitinding girian sa pagitan ng Estados Unidos at Tsina.
A number of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) who have tested positive of Covid-19 are being terminated, abandoned and forced to live in parks in cold weather in Hong Kong.
The families of the 29 Filipino seafarers stranded off the coast of Xiamen, China for almost five months now are asking the government to bring them home, saying that their pleas for help have fallen on deaf ears.
Nagresulta ang pandemic sa pagsara ng maliliit at malalaking establishment. Maraming natanggal, karamihan dito mga foreign workers, expatriate.