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OFW FORUM Most returning Filipinos dream of setting up and operating their own business or livelihood project when they go home for good to their loved ones in the country. The desire is understandable. Though their salary abroad is often double, triple and even quadruple than what they used to

OFW FORUM Among overseas Filipinos, Saudi Arabia-based Eli Mua is probably one of the most ardent and dedicated OFW welfare advocates. Through his nearly daily Facebook posts and frequent liaisons with different OFW groups in the Middle East and in the Philippines he has strongly promoted and ad

Incumbent Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto secured a second term to provide open and honest governance to Pasig citizens after winning in the May 9 local elections. Screenshot from Pasig News Today Live / MANILA BULLETIN He was proclaimed by the City Board of Canvassers (CBC) on Tuesday morning, May

OFW FORUM Will 1.7 million registered overseas voters matter at all in the 2022 national elections with total registered voters of over 67 million? At first glance, it appears that overseas votes are inconsequential and almost irrelevant to the outcome of one of the most hotly-contested electora

OFW Forum Every OFW yearns to have his or her own dream house for comfortable and blissful retirement upon returning  home for good one day after long years of toiling abroad away from loved ones. This narrative never changes whether an OFW is work ing in Hong Kong, Singapore,  Saudi Arabia, Qat

OFW FORUM The answer to this question is certainly awaited with bated breath by many in next month’s national election more than any other poll in recent years. Although Senator Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. continues to maintain a formidable double-digit lead, based on surveys, over Vice President Leni

OFW FORUM Several groups are now earnestly campaigning in social media to get party list seats in Congress in the upcoming May 2022 polls. Their principal objective is clear: get a party list slate so their top representatives get to become members of the House of Representatives. Of course, the

OFW FORUM Hundreds of thousands of OFWs, including those who voted for President Duterte in 2016, are likely to be very much dejected when he steps down from office at end-June this year. Why so? Because he will leave behind a certain high-profile legacies aimed at OFWs which are more “palabas”

OFW FORUM Taking advantage of people desperate to take up high-paying jobs abroad is as easy as grabbing a piece of candy or lollipop from a one-year- old child and simply walking away. It doesn’t really take much to lure people keen to escape the hardships of carving a living in our country. Hi

OFW FORUM Numerous OFWs are overjoyed whenever they are addressed by this seemingly magical phrase – modern heroes of the land. And they are driven into a mass hysteria and frenzy if they are fed key phrases apparently aimed to give them a euphoric high not necessarily fueled by marijuana or sha