With the moving of about 40, 000 military personnel from the US together with their dependents, and other civilian workers to Guam over a five year period, more Filipino businessman are foreseeing the island as a potential investment area.
During the Guam Trade Mission conference, that attracted about 172 Filipino executive and businessmen, a Guam-Philippine Business [...]

Foreign employers who thought it is easy to hire Filipino domestic helpers are in for a surprise as the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) recently imposed more stringent rules on the hiring of low skilled workers.
The new rules specify that employment contracts of household service workers and other low skilled workers must be verified by [...]

Despite the landslide win of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran for his second term, the Iranian is still in protest for more than two weeks now. Cable News Network (CNN) has been reporting that the Islamic Republic of Iran is still in chaos after the election because the Iranians are still protesting the decision of [...]

Commissioner Marcelino Libanan of the Bureau of Immigration (BI) has ordered all airport personnel to stop collecting exit clearance fee from departing Filipinos who are holder of foreign passports. This directive was issued by Libanan to all immigration officials at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) as well as the other international airports and subports [...]

Filipino veterans of World War II who fought alongside US soldiers to defend the Philippines from the Japanese have finally seen the light, so to speak.
With the stimulus bill that was approved by the US Congress last week, a provision is included recognizing the military service of Filipino veterans and granting a tax-free lump [...]

Believing that entrepreneurship is the answer to the looming effect of the global recession in the country, the government is taking steps to turn displaced Overseas Filipino workers (OFW) into entrepreneurs.
In a livelihood project that will be started by the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration, laid off OFWs can avail of a loan up to P50,000 [...]

This may yet be the best news for nurses today, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will be needing 50,000 to 60,000 in the next six months. Despite the economic crisis, the Middle East requirement for nurses and other medical staff in the Middle East, and especially in Saudi Arabia, is very high and [...]

International Law according to Georg Schwarzenberger, “International law is the body of legal rules which apply between sovereign states and such other entities as have been granted international personality.”
If we are going to study the given definition of international law we could say that International law is almost the same with that of the law [...]

Investor’s visa to the United States come in other forms than the 5th Preference employment-based category which requires an investment of one million dollars. This particular type of visa requires an investment of one million dollars. Pretty hefty for a Filipino investor. There is actually another type called E visa that does not require this [...]

The implementation of an integrated immigration database system in the Gulf Cooperation Council has made Hong Kong based regional migrant group lashed out Sunday. They say that the new measure could not guarantee the protection of foreign workers’ human rights. The Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants (APMM) said that the operation of the new database [...]

The Philippine government will not lift the ban on Filipinos going to Iraq. Malacañang said on Wednesday that it will not lift the order barring Filipinos from going and working in Iraq. This, despite the request of the Iraq’s envoy to the Philippine government to lift the said order.
Late last month, Falih Al-Assadi, charge d’affaires [...]

Upon a report by GMANews.TV quoting Gabriela Representative Liza Maza criticizing the government’s implementation of the anti-trafficking law, Justice Undersecretary Ricardo R. Blancaflor issued a response by saying that such criticism is unfair, inaccurate and irresponsible. Noting that 400,000 migrants are being trafficked internally and another 800,000 externally or outside the country, Congresswoman Maza said [...]

A new venue to go to the USA has been opened for the Filipinos. Unfortunately though, it is not a path that everybody can all walk into, as the opportunity is open only to Filipinos who will be transferred to America as an executive, one in management position, posses a specialized knowledge for the same [...]