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Repatriated OFWs told to transfer registration records to vote in 2022 polls

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 11 03:00 PM

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Friday urged overseas Filipino workers repatriated during the COVID-19 pandemic to transfer their registration records in order to participate in the national elections in 2022.   Read more »

OWWA seeking P9.8 billion supplemental budget for OFWs' quarantine needs

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Updated as of May 03 01:55 PM

The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) is seeking a supplemental budget of P9.8 billion to fund the food, transport and accommodation of returning overseas Filipino workers, its official said Monday.  Read more »

Returning OFWs urged to take up TESDA's online agri courses

Jaehwa Bernardo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 03 01:43 PM

TESDA Director General Isidro Lapeña said Wednesday that former OFWs can learn to produce food for their families or become "agripreneurs" by enrolling in the agency's agriculture-related courses, one of the sectors with fewer enrollees under the agency's online training program. Read more »

Bilang ng papapasuking pasahero sa NAIA, babawasan

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Updated as of Oct 22 11:52 PM

MAYNILA - Babawasan na ang mga papayagang darating na mga pasahero sa Ninoy Aquino International Airport sa 2,000 na lamang. Read more »

Mahabang hintayan ng swab test results ng OFWs pinangangambahan

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Posted at Oct 20 08:23 PM

Nangangamba ang Coast Guard na abutin ng 5 araw ang swab test result ng mga umuuwing overseas Filipino workers.  Read more »

Pagproseso ng Coast Guard sa swab test ng repatriated OFWs, mano-mano pa rin

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Posted at Oct 20 01:33 PM

MAYNILA - Wala umanong magagawa ang Philippine Coast Guard sa ngayon kung ‘di gawing mano-mano ang pagproseso sa swab test ng mga umuuwing overseas Filipino workers sa bansa. Read more »

30,000 BPO jobs available to repatriated OFWs: DOLE

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 07 12:58 PM

Some 30,000 job opportunities in the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry are available to migrant workers who were repatriated due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said Wednesday. Read more »

Nearly 480,000 OFWs ‘affected’ by COVID-19 pandemic: Labor dep’t

Jaehwa Bernardo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 01 06:33 PM

The coronavirus pandemic has affected 478,839 overseas Filipino workers, the Department of Labor and Employment said on Thursday. Read more »

Quarantine period para sa mga OFW na residente ng Marikina, mas pinaiksi

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Updated as of Jul 23 08:33 PM

Hindi na kinakailangang dumaan sa mahabang quarantine period ang mga uuwing overseas Filipino workers na residente ng Marikina City, ayon sa alkalde ng lungsod ngayong Huwebes. Read more »

P100-million loan facility, itinakda para sa repatriated OFWs

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 23 03:52 PM

MAYNILA – Binuksan na ng Small Business Corporation ang P100 million loan facility nito para sa napauwing overseas Filipino workers na naapektuhan ng pandemyang dulot ng coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).    Read more »

Bacolod nadagdagan ng 5 bagong kaso ng COVID-19

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Posted at Jun 18 10:55 PM

Nadagdagan ng 5 bagong kaso ng COVID-19 ang Bacolod City, Negros Occidental, ayon sa mga opisyal nitong Huwebes. Read more »

DOST program to help returning OFWs in starting businesses

Bettina Magsaysay, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jun 11 08:16 AM

The program seeks to provide support and opportunities for OFWs and their families to establish technology-based enterprises in the country. Read more »

Palace says remedial measures in place to speed up COVID-19 testing, homecoming of repatriates

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Updated as of Jun 10 01:17 PM

MANILA - The government has instituted remedial measures to facilitate the immediate processing COVID-19 tests and results of arriving overseas Filipino workers so that they need not stay longer in quarantine facilities.   Read more »

Stranded OFWs urge gov't to help them go home to their families

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 29 12:56 AM

Stranded overseas Filipino workers who returned to the Philippines before quarantine facilities were set up are appealing to government to help them return home to their families. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: May 27, 2020

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Posted at May 28 02:53 AM

Here are the big stories today in photos. Read more »

Waiting for bear hugs

Czar Dancel, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of May 27 03:12 PM

Repatriated overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) queue for check-in at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport - Terminal 2 on Wednesday. Thousands of repatriated workers are scheduled to take their flights to their respective provinces after undergoing mandatory quarantine in Manila. Read more »

PH scrambles to send home thousands of OFWs stranded in quarantine facilities

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 25 11:00 PM

Thousands of repatriated overseas Filipino workers returned to their home provinces after President Rodrigo Duterte issued an ultimatum to rush the release of these migrant workers from quarantine facilities. Read more »

Mga stranded OFWs sa Metro Manila na pa-Iloilo, nakauwi na

Nony Basco, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 29 07:24 PM

ILOILO CITY - Nakauwi na rin sa Iloilo nitong Miyerkoles ang 177 overseas Filipino workers na may dalawang buwang natengga sa Metro Manila dahil sa krisis dulot ng coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).   Read more »