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GARY Felker shows a photograph of his American father, James Allen Townsend, a US Air Force communications officer, who was formerly stationed at Camp O’Donnell in Tarlac and who met his mother Irene Soriano in Angeles City. JOJO DUE
 
Amerasians still seeking US fathers, govt help
ANGELES CITY - There seems to be no end yet to years of searching for American Asians or Amerasians, better known to locals as tisoy or tisay, as they continue trying to locate their fathers in the United States.
 
Six OFWs thank Ople for DFA help
Six Filipino workers acquitted of murder charges in Kuwait came to the Department of Foreign Affairs Thursday to thank the government through Secretary Blas Ople and offered to help promote closer ties with Filipino communities abroad.
 
Inclusion of OFWs in development agenda sparks discussion
Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala's call for the inclusion of OFWs in the country’s development agenda has sparked discussion over exactly what such an initiative might entail.
 
Govt not ready to include professionals in GATS talks
The Philippine government first adopted international labor migration in 1974 as a temporary, stop-gap measure to ease domestic unemployment, poverty, and a struggling financial system. After 29 years, however, observers think that the international migration of Filipino workers is here to stay, especially in the light of the growing global economy.
 
Self-help OFW group stymied by lack of funds, local politics
BARANGAY MAIMPIS, San Fernando, Pampanga - In December last year, some 50 former overseas Filipino workers who had returned to Barangay Maimpis in San Fernando, Pampanga, organized themselves into the Maimpis OFW Association.
 
B.I. men at NAIA probed for harassing workers
Immigration Commissioner Andrea Domingo said Tuesday she will dispatch a team to the United Arab Emirates to investigate the personnel of the Bureau of Immigration at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport who were allegedly harassing departing overseas Filipino workers.
 
OFW from Singapore is SARS-free
DAVAO CITY - An overseas worker working as a domestic help in Singapore turned up at the government hospital here for severe acute respiratory syndrome -monitoring, but doctors gave her a clean bill of health, making this city free from SARS infection.
 
NGOs help OFWs manage remittances
The government values OFWs’ remittances since these help improve the country’s balance of payments, among others. Migrant civil society groups assert, however, that the government’s main interest is only in having more migrant workers overseas.
 
OFW remittances increase through the years
Monthly remittances by OFWs to their families have not only helped them survive poverty in the homeland; in many cases, these have raised their income levels.
 
Endangered
Filipinos being spread so far across the globe these days, surely the government must expect that all sorts of risks and threats abound. It’s not enough to call them “heroes.” We must take every means possible to make sure they don’t end up dead ones.
 
NGO hits GMA for 'anomalous' Medicare fund transfer
The government’s health care plans for overseas Filipino workers "stink of anomalies," a group of overseas workers in Hong Kong said Wednesday.
 
DBP offering investments for OFWs
The Development Bank of the Philippines recently launched a new investment product, the DBP Gintong Sikap Common Trust Fund to provide an attractive investment opportunity for overseas Filipino workers.
 
Bukidnon OFW declared SARS-free
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY - The overseas Filipino worker from Taiwan who was suspected of having severe acute respiratory syndrome, when she complained of having fever three days after arriving in the country, was pronounced SARS-free on Friday.
 
Suspected SARS patient refused entry in CDO
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY - Health authorities here and in Bukidnon are working closely in verifying the condition of a female OFW from Taiwan, who was suffering from high fever since Tuesday morning, three days after she entered the country.
 
Migrant groups lobby vs deregulation of overseas employment
QUEZON CITY - Inasmuch as the migrant labor sector has helped keep the ailing Philippine economy afloat with its US dollar remittances, it would stand to reason that the government would want to give the sector all the assistance and protection possible.
 
OFWs want to buy NAIA Terminal 3
Overseas Filipino workers want to buy into national development by suggesting that OFW funds be tapped to raise $400 million to pay Philippine International Air Terminals Co. for Terminal 3 of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport.