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NICOSIA - With recession-hit Cyprus facing an even deeper slump on the back of a draconian EU-IMF bailout, thousands of Asian housemaids, nannies and caregivers on the small Mediterranean island fear for their jobs and futures.

MANILA, Philippines - Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz warned the public on Wednesday against groups or individuals issuing fake receipts in places frequented by overseas Filipino workers such as the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration.

HALIFAX, NS — A group of 29 foreign workers who came to Halifax from the Philippines were granted special permission to stay in Canada on Wednesday after their employer was arrested under suspicion of mistreating employees.

Eight Filipino workers held for almost three weeks in the Turks and Caicos Islands in the Caribbean for immigration violations have been repatriated to the Philippines after their release by authorities in the British territory, an embassy report said on Wednesday.

The Overseas Welfare Workers Administration (OWWA) on Wednesday said it will conduct an investigation to find the source of recently discovered fake OWWA receipts being issued to members.

At least 30 overseas Filipino workers returned to the Philippines from Kuwait after getting unfair treatment from their employers there.

MANILA – Three Filipino seafarers stranded at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya last Easter Sunday were finally repatriated on April 21.

SAIPAN, CNMI – Thousands of Filipinos who have been legally working in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) since at least 2003 could be eligible to apply for US permanent resident status or “green card” five years after the signing into law of a comprehensive immigration reform bill that the U.S. Senate’s “Gang of