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The Department of Labor and Employment last Thursday ordered the Philippine Overseas Labor Offices (POLO) in Saudi Arabia to intensify its assistance to overseas Filipino workers affected by the Kingdom's Saudization policy or the 'Nitaqat' that requires local companies to hire one Saudi national for every 10 migrant workers .

At least 10 Filipinos were arrested in Rome over alleged illegal loans involving high interest rates, radio dzBB reported on Thursday.

At least 11 Filipino workers of a Saudi company that went bankrupt are finally on their way home after getting help from Philippine officials in securing their exit visas.

Four Filipinos were arrested in Macau over the weekend for allegedly smuggling more than 50 kilograms of high-grade cocaine amounting to about P1 billion, in what is believed to be the biggest drug trafficking incident to date in the Chinese territory.

Saudi Arabia has agreed to send home 30-50 undocumented Filipino maids a week, in a move seen to hasten the return to the Philippines of hundreds of others who have been stranded in the Kingdom for lack of valid immigration documents, the Foreign Affairs Department said Tuesday.

MANILA, Philippines - The Labor department budgets P2 billion for returning overseas Filipino workers who want to venture into agribusiness.

The Philippine Embassy in Riyadh has opened two temporary shelters to accommodate undocumented Filipinos requesting repatriation, the Department of Foreign Affairs said on Monday.

THE Saudi government hopes that the final text of the proposed bilateral labor agreement with the Philippines will be signed during the visit to Riyadh of Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz on May 18-19.