3 MIN READOne of the first Filipino settlers in the United States were seafaring people who arrived as sailors and navigators on board Spanish ships during the Galleon trade.
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3 MIN READThe family of Mary Jean Balag-ey Alberto, a female overseas Filipino worker (OFW) who died in Abu Dhabi, is demanding an impartial investigation of her death and the immediate repatriation of her remains.
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3 MIN READ“Sumugal po ako doc,” says Delfin (not his real name) in his early 40’s, father of three, an Overseas Filipino Worker in a US territory for more than 20 years. For three years now, Delfin would not sit down. Even if he wanted to, he just could not. All he could do was either stand or lie on his bed.
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4 MIN READThe Republic Act 8042, otherwise known as the Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipino Act of 1995 institutes the government policies for overseas employment and establishes a higher standard of protection and promotion for the welfare of migrant workers, their families and overseas Filipinos in distress.
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4 MIN READUnnumbered Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) on death row, thousands raped, tens of thousands fall victims of human trafficking, massive unpaid salaries, discriminated, thousands terminated, charged of crimes and incapable of defending themselves. These slave-like conditions continue 22 years after the execution of Flor Contemplacion and the passage of the Migrants Act of 1995.
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3 MIN READI hate how I grew up not really having a father. Don’t get me wrong, my father is alive and is still married to my mother- he is an Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW).
Read More3 MIN READBy ARTHUR L. ALLAD-IW www.nordis.net The on-going war that is destabilizing the oil-rich nation forced her to get out of Libya. And her well paying job as a nurse for more than one-year in a privately-owned hospital in...
Read More2 MIN READBy ROCKY NGALOB www.nordis.net LA TRINIDAD, BENGUET — Book entitled ‘Between Two Worlds’ stories of struggle and symmetry of Filipinos abroad authored by Ireneo W. Marcelo an alumna of Mountain Collegian student’s...
Read More2 MIN READBy ALDWIN QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — According to Innabuyog-Gabriela Secretary General Veron Malecdan, the kingdom’s new rule on protecting the rights of foreign domestic workers has caused great relief...
Read More3 MIN READBy ALDWIN QUITASOL www.nordis.net BAGUIO CITY — For Margie, the wife of 23 year old Marvin Payangdo who is one of the 40 stranded Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) at the Philippine embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, it...
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