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THE number of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) diagnosed as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive is likely to surpass the 7,000 mark this year, the ACTS-OFW Coalition of Organizations said on Sunday.

CASH remittances from migrant Filipino workers based in Qatar are likely to nosedive by 20 percent, or $200 million (P10.4 billion), this year due to Doha’s lingering diplomatic crisis, the ACTS-OFW Coalition of Organizations said on Friday.

CASH remittances from migrant Filipino workers based in Qatar are likely to nosedive by 20 percent, or $200 million (P10.4 billion), this year due to Doha’s lingering diplomatic crisis, the ACTS-OFW Coalition of Organizations said on Friday.

THE Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) is monitoring developments in the seizing on Saturday of a tugboat manned by a Filipino crew in the Persian Gulf.

After months of hospital confinement in Macau under the regular monitoring of the Philippine Consulate General in Macau, a comatose overseas Filipino worker has been repatriated, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA).

Aside from the cash assistance provided by the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration, the returning workers were also welcomed by officers of the Coalition of Licensed Agencies for Domestic and Service Workers (CLADS), the biggest country-specific organization of recruitment agencies, the Philippine Recruitment Agencies Accredited to Saudi Arabia (PRAASA) and the Overseas Placement Association of the Philippines (OPAP) who gave each worker additional cash of P1,000 and bags of groceries for their families.

OFWs returning to Libya told: Be vigilant

Labor Secretary Silvestre H. Bello III said the labor department is yet to receive a recommendation from the Department of Foreign Affairs for a temporary deployment ban, even as the Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLO) is closely monitoring the situation.

While the Philippine government has not issued a travel ban, presidential spokesperson Salvador Panelo said Filipinos should reconsider going there for now.

Six  Filipinos  return from Libya  on Monday as clashes continue in Tripoli and neighboring areas.

This brings  to 99 the number of Filipinos who were repatriated by the Philippine Embass

To date, there are major agencies that have mandates relative to overseas employment and overseas Filipinos concerns, namely, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA), the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA), the Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO), and the Office of the Undersecretary for Migrant Workers’ Affairs (OUMWA) of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA).

TO match up with the latest trend of online shopping, the Duty Free Philippines (DFP) is now selling its exclusive pasalubong packs (chocolates sold in bags) through online.

THE Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) received the remains of two Filipinas who fell victim to serial killings in Cyprus.

THE Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), through the Philippine Embassy in Tehran, continues to monitor the developments related to the seizing of British-flagged MT Stena Impero last July 19 while transiting the Strait of Hormuz.

THE Philippines-Israel Labor Agreement on hotel cleaners is expected to be implemented soon, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said yesterday.