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MANILA, PIA – The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has approved the reopening of the Libyan Dinar Currency Exchange Facility (LYD-CEF) for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) repatriated from Libya for another six months, or until July 29, 2015. The approval came shortly after Labor Secretary Erlinda Baldoz sent a letter to Amando M. Tetangco, BSP Governor, requesting for the extension of the LYD-CEF, thus, giving life to BSP Circular 867, dated January 14, 2015, allowing […]
The Department of Health (DOH) confirmed that an OFW from China died from a suspected case of bird flu. According to the DOH, the patient arrived in the country last February 9 and the following day complained of coughs, fever and stomach pain. Although the OFW consulted doctors on February 11, his condition worsened and died on February 14. According to the DOH, they are considering avian flu as the patient’s cause of death since […]
Ang Blas F. Ople program Center and Training Institute ay itinatag noong August 22, 2004. Ito ay isang nonprofit organization at ipinangalan sa isang dating secretary ng DOLE at ng DFA at nang dati ring senador Blas F. Ople. Ang organisasyong ito ay tumutulong at nagbibigay lunas sa mga problema na hinaharap ng mga Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) at ng kanilang mga pamilya na nakararanas ng hirap.
MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Health (DOH) is planning to require a medical clearance from Filipinos who are returning from Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia, which have been struck by the deadly Ebola virus, Health Secretary Enrique Ona said on Monday. “We are now making arrangements na iyong ating mga Filipino workers doon … dapat bago sila makauwi dito, we will require them to have a so-called medical clearance,” he said on the sidelines […]
After the execution of a Filipino worker and a Filipino nurse gang-raped, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Department of Labor and Employment are asking overseas Filipino workers in Libya are being urged to evacuate as violence mounts.
The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration encourages overseas Filipino workers to take polio vaccines due to an outbreak in ten countries according to the World Health Organization. The POEA further added that recruitment agencies and foreign employers should shoulder the cost of the vaccination.
The International Organization for Migration shouldered the air fare, land transportation fee and the food of 41 overseas Filipino workers from Syria as they return to the Philippines.
The Department of Foreign Affairs will take action regarding the incident wherein a Filipino waiter was abducted by three armed Saudi nationals in the restaurant were he was working.
Philippine embassy officials in Saudi Arabia said that relatives of OFW’s should not panic as Health Ministry officials of Saudi Arabia gave assurance that the situation is under control.
