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OFW Forum Ending the continuing physical and sexual abuses of Filipino women across the Middle East doesn’t require rocket science. Even in the absence of comprehensive empirical data, it is fairly easy to deduce and conclude what should have been clear as daylight to the country’s labor officia
OFW Forum Governor Benjamin Diokno said last month that the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas would conduct an investigation into complaints of dozens of Banco de Oro depositors who claimed to have lost varied sums in their savings accounts. BDO, the country’s largest universal bank, has acknowledged t
OFW FORUM Understandably, advocates of the rights and welfare of overseas Filipino workers, notably Eli Mua in Saudi Arabia, cheered President Rodrigo Duterte’s signing on Dec. 29 of a new law that creates a new department exclusively for overseas Filipinos. They believe firmly that a dedicated
OFW Forum The COVID-19 pandemic may be easing in the Philippines and elsewhere, but online scammers are oblivious as they appear to be stepping up their bid to cheat overseas Filipinos. Numerous investment offers are being made online to overseas Filipinos to lure them into investing in a wi
OFW Forum When Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello spoke on Oct. 15 about government plans to ban deployments to Saudi Arabia since scores of OFWs aren’t paid their salaries for one or two years, it again highlighted the recurring and persistent maltreatment of foreign workers there. How can OFWs