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About two million overseas household service workers or domestic helpers are expected to benefit from the proposal of ...
Time flies so fast. In a few months, I will have been in the UAE as an Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) for two decades. Like life itself, there have been ups and downs, but they haven't stopped me from ...
After months of planning, the seminar took place on July 6 and drew over 80 Filipinos from 22 different civic and community ...
Money sent home by overseas Filipinos (OFs) continued to increase in May this year, data released by the Bangko Sentral ng ...
MANILA, Philippines — Overseas Filipino voters said they fear "massive disenfranchisement" because Philippine embassies and consulates are supposedly unprepared for the May polls and have failed ...
Catching recent attention, many overseas Filipino workers (OFW) have endured waves of hard hits following cases of unpaid leave that have impacted over 5,000 Filipinos in Macau, out of the 26,400 ...
THE Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said on Wednesday, July 16, 2025, that an undetermined number of Filipinos are still ...
Overseas Filipinos may face higher remittance costs as the U.S. enacts a 1% tax on cash-based money transfers abroad starting January 2026. Learn who’s affected, what’s exempt, and how ...
Around 1 in 10 Filipinos live abroad, compelled to work overseas to support their families back home. Their remittances equaled 8.5% of the country’s entire economic output in 2012, according to ...
THE Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO) and the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) have teamed up to encourage Filipino ...
For Filipinos Abroad, Home Is Calling. Since the 1970s, Filipinos by the millions have left the country for opportunities elsewhere—but the trend is finally turning. By . Trefor Moss.
Overseas Filipino Bank began operating in June last year using its then-existing license to operate as a thrift bank, before obtaining its digital license last month.