More than 1,400 Filipino nationals in the Middle East have requested repatriation amid the escalating conflict involving Israel, the United States and Iran, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said Tuesday, as closed airspace, airport shutdowns and active combat zones made...
The Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) have activated contingency protocols to safeguard overseas Filipino workers from Central Visayas as tensions escalate in the Middle East, with no reported casualties among the region's deployed workers so far.
The Overseas Workers Welfare...
MANILA — The Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs escalated crisis alert levels across much of the Middle East on Monday, placing the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Israel all under Alert Level 2, the "Restriction...
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. confirmed Sunday that a Filipina caregiver became the first reported Filipino casualty in the escalating Middle East conflict, killed by shrapnel while helping her elderly ward reach a bomb shelter during an Iranian missile strike...
Philippine embassies across several Middle Eastern countries have advised Filipino nationals to restrict their movements as Iran launched missile and drone strikes on U.S. military bases in the region in retaliation for a major joint U.S.-Israeli military operation against...
The Philippine government is set to quadruple a key fee for verifying new employment contracts of overseas Filipino workers in Hong Kong, prompting sharp criticism from migrant advocacy groups who call the increase exploitative and burdensome for low-wage domestic...
The Commission on Filipinos Overseas is calling for an evidence-based review of the country's succession and property laws to better protect the inheritance rights of Filipinos living abroad, the agency announced this week.
CFO Secretary Dante “Klink” Ang II said...
Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), a vital pillar of the Philippine economy through billions in annual remittances, face mounting threats in 2026 from shifting labor policies abroad, technological disruption, persistent exploitation and geopolitical risks, according to government reports and officials.
Nationalization...
In an era when most photographs live and die on a screen—made, shared, forgotten in the span of a scroll—Bangkok-based Filipino photographer Nico Sepe is offering something stubbornly physical: portraits created the way the medium once insisted they be...
Philippine legislators are pushing emergency measures to shield the earnings of the country's 10 million overseas workers from mounting fees and international taxes that threaten to drain billions of pesos from remittance-dependent families.
The House of Representatives is advancing the...
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