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Police are investigating nearly 50 false New Zealand passports, discovered during checks being done before a new online passport renewal system is introduced this year.

BEIJING, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) -- The Ministry of Civil Affairs has worked out a guideline to give the country's migrant workers greater access to urban community-based public services and help them better adapt to life in the city.

MANILA, Philippines - Of the 10,000 Filipinos in Syria, only 4,557 are registered, and the rest are illegal and only 10 percent are willing to come home, the foreign affairs secretary said yesterday.

Despite the government’s labor deployment ban to Syria, the illegal trafficking in overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) continues in the troubled Middle East country, according to Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario.

MANILA, Philippines - Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario said on Tuesday that Filipino seamen continue to face kidnapping in the pirate-infested seas off Somalia as the number of those held captive since 2006 has reached 769 Filipino seamen onboard 63 vessels.

MANILA: Philippine Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario says nearly 1,000 of 10,000 Filipinos in Syria will have been repatriated by next month amid escalating violence there.

Lawmakers are set to overhaul the 2004 Overseas Labor Placement and Protection Law to improve conditions for Indonesian migrant workers.