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OPINION: Dear OFWs, your balikbayan boxes are now at risk of being delayed, torn open, 'thrown into the sea'

Raissa Robles
Posted at Nov 12 12:18 PM

According to former Customs Commissioner Ruffy Biazon, an entire shipload of containers was issued an “alert order” just before Customs Commissioner Isidro Lapeña was removed. Congressman Biazon estimated that this would number around 492 containers that would now have to be opened one by one. Read more »

159 Filipino workers repatriated from Middle East: DFA

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 10 08:11 PM

A total of 159 Filipino migrant workers from the Middle East were repatriated by the Philippine government this week, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Saturday. Read more »

BOC eases ID rules for balikbayan boxes

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 10 12:23 AM

Overseas workers welcome the easing of rules on duty-free balikbayan boxes but question delays in delivery of packages. Read more »

OFW spared from death row gets P100,000 cash aid

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 09 09:52 PM

Jennifer Dalquez, a migrant worker who was spared from execution in United Arab Emirates, was given P100,000 financial assistance from the government, the Department of Foreign Affairs said Friday. Read more »

'Pagpapadala ng balikbayan boxes pinasimple pero delay di maiiwasan'

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Nov 10 03:02 AM

Ayon sa BOC, kahit mabilis ang transaksiyon sa kanilang mga opisina ay hindi ito garantiya na hindi na makararanas ng pagkaantala sa pagdating ng mga pinadala.  Read more »

Terminal fee refund ng mga OFW, puwede nang kunin sa MIAA

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 09 03:47 AM

Puwede na kasing makuha ang refund ng binayaran niyo sa opisina ng MIAA. Read more »

Libreng kurso online, alok ng TESDA

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 08 12:58 AM

Sa mga nais matuto ng bagong skills mula sa TESDA, bukod po sa aktuwal na training, maaari na ring kumuha ng libreng kurso online. Read more »

Duterte meets OFW Jennifer Dalquez

Roland Mailo, Malacanang Photo
Posted at Nov 07 07:14 PM

President Duterte greets Jennifer Dalquez in Malacañang on Tuesday.  Read more »

OFW e-card, inilunsad

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 07 12:58 AM

Mayroon nang opisyal na ID ang mga documented OFWs: Ang OFW electronic card. Read more »

Duterte says he threatened UAE to spare OFW from death row

Pia Gutierrez, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 06 10:31 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday said he threatened the United Arab Emirates that he will stop the deployment of Filipino workers in the Gulf state should they execute Filipino Jennifer Dalquez for the murder of her employer. Read more »

OWWA launches OFW e-card

Ina Reformina, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 06 09:30 PM

The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) launched Tuesday the Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) e-Card to provide OFWs easy access to the agency’s programs, apart from being proof of OWWA membership.  Read more »

OFW saved from death row hugs Duterte

Dharel Placido, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 06 07:54 PM

Jennifer Dalquez, a former Overseas Filipino worker in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, met with President Rodrigo Duterte in Malacañang Tuesday, an official said. Read more »

OFW e-card launched

Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 06 07:22 PM

Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello gives an Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) her e-card during its launching, led by the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA), at the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC) on Tuesday. Read more »

Labor dept presses airlines not to collect travel tax, terminal fees from OFWs

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 05 12:33 PM

Airlines should not collect travel taxes and terminal fees from overseas Filipino workers, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said Monday, emphasizing a years-old law. Read more »

DFA to take deeper look into death of Pinay in Saudi

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Nov 05 12:42 AM

The Department of Foreign Affairs said Sunday it will look into the death of a 44-year-old Filipina worker who was allegedly maltreated in Saudi Arabia. Read more »

OFW na nakaligtas sa bitay sa UAE, nakauwi na sa Pinas

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 02 11:36 PM

Nakabalik na ng Pilipinas ang OFW na si Jennifer Dalquez na nakaligtas sa parusang bitay sa UAE.  Read more »

Jennifer’s homecoming

Raoul Esperas, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 02 05:46 PM

Overseas Filipino worker (OFW) Jennifer Dalquez turns emotional upon seeing here parents, after returning from Abu Dhabi where she was detained for 4 years on murder charges, at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 1 on Friday morning.  Read more »

Dissecting Data: Can holiday remittances boost the peso?

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Nov 02 03:55 PM

Can holiday remittances lift the peso, which has languished at its lowest levels in 12 years against the dollar? Read more »

OFW saved from Middle East death row comes home

RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Nov 02 05:13 PM

The 29-year-old was nothing but grateful to President Rodrigo Duterte and his administration for helping her regain freedom. Read more »

OFW Jennifer Dalquez on being saved from death row: ‘Taos-pusong nagpapasalamat’

Willard Cheng, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Nov 02 06:01 AM

After spending almost 4 years in an Abu Dhabi prison, acquitted murder suspect Jennifer Dalquez finally boarded her flight to freedom on Thursday night. Read more »