Pinoy OFW News – News and information about Overseas Filipino Workers around the globe. We share the latest updates on current updates about fellow Pinoys working overseas. Good to learn about what’s going on with our kababayans.
While it’s admittedly troubling to look at the news lately, there’s still more good than what is normally highlighted in reports. One of these is the increase in mid-year remittances of the Philippines, many thanks … Read more
Malacañang announced on Tuesday (August 17) that the country has its doors open to accept refugees from war-torn Afghanistan, following the takeover of the Taliban of the government. Earlier, the Philippine government appealed to an … Read more
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Netflix announced on Friday (August 12) that Filipino-Canadian actor Gordon Kyle Diez Cormier will star in their next live-action adaptation of Nickelodeon’s animation series “Avatar: The Last Airbender”. READ ALSO: UAE Pinoy Kid Impresses Judges … Read more
Following a magnitude 7.2 quake that hit Haiti last Saturday (August 14), the Department of Foreign Affairs reported that no Filipinos in the said country have been identified in the current death toll of at … Read more
There’s some good news for Filipinos looking for work in the US territory of Guam as more jobs are expected to be available in the next decade as the government is in talks of hiring … Read more
The Philippine government will adopt the emergency use of the UAE-developed Hayat-Vax vaccines with the clearance of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in order to enhance immunization coverage. According to FDA chief Rolando Enrique … Read more
A call for the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) to look into firms that enforce “no vaccine, no work” policies for their employees and job seekers despite the official mandate against such policy, was … Read more
An overseas Filipino worker (OFW) in the Fiji Islands was rescued from employer abuse thanks to a report on the Abizo OFW smartphone app. Almedo Lopez, the OFW in question was engaged by Pleass Global … Read more
Carlo Escario, a 36-year-old Filipino health worker, was saved from deportation at the last minute when authorities permitted him to live in Toronto despite his failure to reveal comprehensive family data after thousands of people … Read more
A Singaporean court has ordered a Filipino domestic worker to serve one year in prison for stealing approximately S$32,000 (USD 23600 or PhP1.19 million) from her employer over a five-year period in order to build … Read more