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All Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) are advised of the passage of the Italian Parliament of Law No. 92 (Law 92) titled Security Package’, and sub-titled ‘Measures for a More Secure Life for the Citizens’. The new law aims to stem illegal migration by making it more difficult for foreigners to enter Italy if they do not have the proper documentation. Law 92, which effectively makes illegal entry a crime in Italian jurisdiction, has the following provisions/features, among others: a) Imprisonment from six (6) months to four (4) years and the obligatory arrest of the illegal entrant who will be subjected to a quick trial; b) Phenomenon of the so-called ‘marriage for convenience’ with the sole purpose of acquiring Italian citizenship; c) Establishment of a national data bank to ascertain paternity of a person and blood relationships of foreign citizens; d) Easier expulsions/deportations; e) Arrest and confiscation of properties transferred through illegal titles t...

Maguindanao (August 24, 2012)- Nag-ikot sa iba’t ibang paaralan sa Maguindanao ang mga kawani at tauhan ng Overseas Workers Welfare Administration sa Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (OWWA-ARMM) bilang bahagi ng malawakang promosyon ng mga scholarship program at serbisyo ng ahensya. Kabilang sa paaralan na pinuntahan ng ahensya ay ang Sultan Mastura NHS, Parang NHS, Amir Bara Lidasan NHS, Sultan Kudarat Islamic Academy, Sarilikha NHS, Notre Dame of Upi, Nangi NHS at Upi Agricultural School. Nakakuha ang RWO-ARMM ng may kabuuang 145 na aplikante para sa EDSP at 13 para sa CMWSP. Pangunahing layunin ng aktibidad na hikayatin at imbitahan ang mga magtatapos ng hayskul na dependent ng aktibong OFW, hindi lalampas ng 21 taong gulang na interesadong magpatuloy ng pag-aaral ng apat o limang taong baccalaureate course sa alinmang CHED accredited na kolehiyo o unibersidad. Sa pamamagitan ng scholarship program, binibigyan ng pagkakataon ang dependent ng aktibong OFW na makapagtap...

Administrator Hans Leo J. Cacdac said the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) has filed appropriate charges against 19 manning agencies found conducting illegal recruitment activities at Luneta Seafarer’s Center in Ermita, Manila last week. Cacdac said he ordered the operatives of POEA’s Operations and Surveillance Division to assist agents of the Anti-Transnational Crime Division of PNP-Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (PNP-CIDG) in the conduct of a special operation against reported illegal recruitment activities in the area. Cacdac said a joint POEA-PNP surveillance team formed for the purpose posed as applicants and inquired about available seafarer positions from representatives of several manning agencies present at the Seafarer’s Center. The POEA-PNP team reported that the agency representatives handed them company brochures, calling cards, and flyers listing their respective job openings. The report identified the manning agencies...

"The obligation of a licensed recruitment agency to its hired OFWs does not end upon their deployment to the worksite. The recruitment agency has the continuous obligation to ensure protection of workers, especially domestic workers." Thus said Labor and Employment Secretary Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz yesterday after she reminded yet once again recruitment agency owners who lose sight of their duty to protect domestic workers deployed overseas. " No less than the governing board of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) has required the highest degree of protection for our overseas household service workers, owing to the vulnerable nature of their employment," Baldoz said. "Hence, we shall hold recruiters true to their responsibility and accountable to the POEA to ensure that foreign employers faithfully comply with their legal and contractual obligations to our domestic workers," she added. Baldoz is the chairman of the PO...

ABS-CBNnews.com MANILA, Philippines - A Filipina, who was arrested for possessing 2 kilos of heroin in 2006, has been sentenced to 10 years in jail by a court in New Delhi, an India-based news agency reported. Press Trust of India (PTI) reported that the New Delhi court found Ma Sol Baillo guilty of possession of illegal drugs and imposed the minimum jail sentence of 10 years. "Keeping in view the age, family background and all other attending circumstances, the convict is being awarded the minimum sentence of rigorous imprisonment," PTI quoted the court as saying. The 44-year-old Baillo will also have to pay a fine of Rs 1 lakh (around US$1,870 or P78,000). Baillo, a native of Manduriao, was arrested in 2006 at the Indira Gandhi International Airport as she was leaving for Bangkok. The heroin was reportedly found in a false bottom of her suitcase. During the trial, Baillo denied the allegations and said the drugs were planted. However, the court dismissed her clai...

By Rodney Jaleco, ABS-CBN North America News Bureau Cuisia, Lewis lead defense of Del Rosario in US WASHINGTON D.C. - The Philippine ambassador to Washington DC and a Filipino-American civic leader rallied around Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario, urging him to stay amid rumors he is contemplating resignation. Philippine Ambassador Jose L. Cuisia, Jr., the country’s top envoy in Washington DC, said he firmly supports the principled leadership exhibited by Del Rosario. "We at the Philippine Embassy in Washington, D.C. continue to be inspired by the Secretary’s courage, integrity and fortitude,” Cuisia said in a statement. “We commit to rededicate our full efforts to support the Secretary, and continue to make our contribution to his efforts to protect and uphold our sovereignty, and ensure the safety and well-being of our people." Filipino-American business and civic leader Loida Nicolas Lewis, chairperson of the US Pinoys for Good Governance, said she ...

A unique kind of medical procedure called "keyhole surgery" saved a 44-year-old Filipina cancer patient in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).   The keyhole or laparoscopic surgery on the Filipina was the first of its kind in the UAE and only the fourth in the world, a report of the news site  Gulf News  said last week.   Dr Hafeez Rahman, a laparoscopic and gynaecology surgeon, and founder of International Modern Hospital (IMH) Dubai, said the Filipina patient had uterine cancer.   Rahman said the Filipina had a cancerous lymph node on the inferior vena cava (IVC), a large vein that delivers blood to the heart from the lower extremities, pelvis, and abdomen. The doctor explained that a traditional open and invasive procedure could have been fatal in the Filipina's case.   According to the website of the University of Southern Califonia, laparoscopic surgery is a "minimally invasive" type of surgery where surgical procedures are executed ...