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Improved image of OFWs greets Aquino in Japan

Posted by jacobo 603 days ago Philippines
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TOKYO, Japan — President Benigno S. Aquino III arrived here Sunday afternoon to a rousing welcome from his countrymen, whose image as workers had improved considerably since the years when mostly Filipino nightspot entertainers roamed Japan.

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OFWs' repatriation from Yemen intensified

Posted by jacobo 604 days ago Philippines
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Migrante: 2 mysterious OFW deaths received a month

Posted by jacobo 604 days ago Philippines
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MANILA, Philippines - A migrants' rights group today claimed receiving at least two cases of mysterious deaths of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) every month.

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Jobs await former Gaddafi househelp

Posted by jacobo 604 days ago Philippines
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JOBS at a hotel in Cebu await the two Filipina household helpers who were rescued from the employ of relatives of ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi, the Blas F. Ople Policy (BFO) Center said yesterday.

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Airport worker nabbed for human trafficking

Posted by jacobo 605 days ago Philippines
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MANILA, Philippines - Members of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Task Force Against Trafficking on Thursday detained an airport employee who was reportedly caught assisting 2 suspected "tourist workers" bound for Bangkok, Thailand.

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Pinoy students in UK warn vs PH consultancy firms

Posted by jacobo 605 days ago Philippines
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Students started to arrive in the first quarter of 2011, some in groups of 10 to 15 students. All of them came to the UK to seek the proverbial green pasture.

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21 Filipinos to arrive from Syria

Posted by jaypee 606 days ago Philippines
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MANILA, Philippines—Twenty-one Filipinos fleeing violence in Syria were set to arrive Thursday night in Manila, the Department of Foreign Affairs said.

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An embassy frozen in time

Posted by jacobo 606 days ago Philippines
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MANILA, Philippines — Frozen in time.


This was how Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Rafael E. Seguis described the old Philippine Embassy building in Baghdad, Iraq, when he visited the abandoned structure which is being rented to the Philippine government for $70,000 annually.

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