Xoom.com, a money online transfer company, tied up with DIRECTV to for a special offer to Xoom customers to watch the Manny Pacquiao “Pacman” Pacquiao versus Sugar Shane Mosley fight for free on DIRECTV Pay-Per-View (PPV).
The company is excited to bring this opportunity for the first time. It will be available to new Xoom customers [...]

The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) announced on Monday that the overseas Filipino worker (OFW) who was sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia on November 2009 for involvement in smuggling shabu into the country was granted pardon and freed Sunday.
The DFA did not release his name, in deference to the request of his family for [...]

The Bureau of Immigration (BI) barred 34 prospective overseas Filipino workers from leaving the country. The passengers were prevented from boarding a Philippine Airlines (PAL) flight to Bangkok after confessing that they were OFWs disguised as business travelers after intense questioning from immigration officers at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA).
BI airport operations chief Lina [...]

The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said that as of yesterday, there were still no reported Filipinos who have been injured or killed in the earthquake that hit Japan last Friday, although the department said that there about 4,500 Filipinos who are believed to have been affected by the disaster.
The DFA in Manila said they [...]

A lower fees in their remittances will be enjoyed by overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and their beneficiaries starting on the third quarter of the year. According to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), this will materialize once the the Philippine Payments and Settlements System (Philpass) Remit System becomes fully operational.
Remittances sent through the Philpass Remit [...]

Saturday, April 10, 2010 marks the first day of voting for Filipino overseas, which according to the Department of Foreign Affairs, proceeded smoothly.
Voters in Hong Kong said the automated process was “fun and simple” and most of them took less than 3 minutes to cast their voted, feed their ballots in the precinct count optical [...]

The sale of $500 million in retail treasury bonds (RTBs) has been launched by the government. This investment instruments are intended for overseas Filipino workers. They are the Fixed Rate Multicurrency Retail Bonds and they will be auctioned on April 20 and will be offered to investors on the same day until April 27, according [...]

The Philippine National Bank (PNB) signed up an agreement with the Bank of China (BOC) in handling remittances of Italy-based Chinese nationals to their homeland. The Lucio Tan-led PNB’s agreement with the state-owned BOC expands the market coverage of unit PNB Italy SpA which was established to facilitate remittances of thousands of Filipinos in Italy.
PNB [...]

More jobs await Filipinos overseas this year. The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) said that Filipinos, particularly nurses, caregivers and factory workers, can look forward to more jobs in Japan and South Korea.

New report from the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) said there will be a demand for more workers in the construction and oil industries in the United States this year. Hans Leo Cacdac, POEA deputy administrator said that the US government is opening its doors once again to foreign workers. More than a year after [...]

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia still tops the list of land-based destinations of overseas Filipino workers, according to the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA). The agency also said that the Saudi Arabia even improved by 8.2 percent in terms of the number of OFWs deployed as of October 2009.

MoneyGram International and Smart Communications, Inc. tied up to provide families of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) the convenience of wireless “wallet” service. OFWs may now send their remittances to their families in the Philippines faster through the facility which is likened to a “cross border wallet service.”

A new brand spirit campaign has been launched recently by Axa Philippines. The new campaign hopes to redefine the meaning of insurance for Filipinos.
Axa president and chief executive officer Rien Hermans said in a press statement that the campaign is aimed at changing the common notion of people with insurance. Most Filipinos associate insurance with [...]

Two overseas Filipino workers (OFW) families were recognized for their efforts in helping residents in their community gain employment or livelihood through promotion of entrepreneurship. The first OFW was from Lipa, Batangas, and the second one was from Baleno, Masbate. They were named this year’s Model OFW families.
The Model OFW Family of the Year Awards [...]

To allow local residents more opportunities to spend more time talking with their families and friends abroad, Globe Telecom has reduced its international voice and text rates to major destinations by as much as 87%.

Babaylan Austria is a group of Filipino women based in Austria. It was formed in 1996 and its objective is to promote Filipino women’s empowerment and ensure the members full participation in the development processes through sharing of experiences, information and resources.

Local money transfer company I-Remit, Inc. just opened a new branch in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, the company’s fifth branch in that country.  The new branch is located in the Chinatown Hall, where many Asians immigrants in the country are also located.

“We always knew this would happen,” Deputy Presidential spokesperson Gary Olivar commented on the increase in OFW remittances posted in May.
Malacañang said that the record high remittances proved that the government was correct in being optimistic about the country’s economy this year.
Olivar said they are happy about this kind of numbers. “It is just [...]

The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration has broadened the “low or semi-skilled” workers category to include 44 other jobs aside from household service workers.
In a memorandum dated June 15 this year, the POEA categorized as low and semi-skilled the following jobs for female workers all over the world except for Canada: aerobic instructress, attendants (gasoline [...]

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 [...]