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.
Several lawmakers, former finance secretaries and even a group of prominent economists joined the call to abolish the National Food Authority (NFA) as the agency was unable to fulfill its role of stabilizing the rice prices and … Read more
The Department of Foreign Affairs reported that since increasing its efforts in February to go after fixers and scam artists that sell passport application appointments, around 1,000 pages and user accounts have been taken down. DFA has … Read more
Top of President Rodrigo Duterte’s priorities in his upcoming visit to Israel and Jordan this September is the signing of memorandum agreements related to labor. The visits will be considered as a significant milestone in the … Read more
Returning Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) who plan to put up a business in the Philippines can soon enjoy a higher shopping limit set at USD 4,500 (PHP 243,000+) through Duty Free Philippines’ (DFP) Kabuhayan Shopping … Read more
Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat recently announced to the Department of Tourism’s (DOT) key travel partners in the UK that starting October 26, the world-renowned Philippine tourist destination, Boracay, will once again be open for business. However, … Read more
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), through its department executive, Sec. Alan Peter Cayetano, announced last September 27 (Thursday) that there will be shorter passport application processing time effective October 1, 2018. ALSO READ: How … Read more
Last Thursday (September 27), the Department of Labour and Employment (DOLE) has banned the deployment of OFWs in Libya after the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has raised alert level three in the region, as … Read more
With the dwindling remittance rates of OFWs in the Middle East, Leyte Representative Henry Ong appealed for a policy change in Congress regarding the deployment of OFWs, as shared in a report by RMN News. … Read more
Wilfredo K. Pardorla Jr., a teacher-researcher from Saint Cecilia’s College-Cebu Inc., has been named as one of the international participants in the prestigious 14th International Summer Space School in Russia offered by the Samara University … Read more
For the first time in the last 10 years, the Philippine Overseas Employment Agency (POEA) has noted a decrease in the deployment of land-based overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) by 9 percent in 2017 or 1,992,746 … Read more