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COLOMBO - Almost 14,000 Sri Lankan migrant workers who have overstayed their visas in Saudi Arabia have turned themselves over to the authorities to be repatriated or be handed legal visas, said the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment on Wednesday.

BONTOC, Mountain Province – The Overseas Filipino Workers loan assistance program of the provincial government has already benefited 115 overseas workers and continues to assist more.

BERLIN, Germany - Vice President Jejomar Binay could not hide his anger at a well-attended meeting with the Filipino community in Berlin.

The Philippine Embassy in Riyadh has set up a new consular field office for the surging number of overseas Filipino workers (OFW) who wish to avail of consular services to correct their working status in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

DUBAI: A strike by thousands of migrant workers at Dubai’s biggest builder Arabtec last month may be a harbinger of a new wave of industrial activism that threatens to disrupt the Gulf’s latest construction boom.

As many as 15 leading private construction and infrastructure companies, executing the work for the prestigious Namma Metro project, have been slapped with criminal cases by none other than by the Union Ministry of Labour and Employment for allegedly violating labour laws.

The government has decided in principle to set workers’ migration cost to an amount not exceeding their two-month wages instead of the high amount charged so far by private recruiting agencies.

ALMATY, June 5 (Xinhua) -- A ministerial conference on refugee and migration problems in Central Asia started here Wednesday, with attending countries pledging to promote communication and cooperation on the issue.