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Embassy issues 35‚000 travel documents

jacobo — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:33 CST

KATHMANDU: The Nepali Embassy in Riyadh, has issued 35,000 travel documents to illegal migrant workers since Saudi Arabia announced amnesty on April 5.

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Foreign Workers Earn W1.6 Million a Month

jacobo — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:33 CST

Foreign migrant workers in small or medium-sized firms in Korea are earning up to 11 times what they used to make in their own country, a survey released Monday suggests.

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Livelihood opportunities presented to distressed OFWs

jacobo — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:33 CST

Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said on Monday some P340 million worth of loans have been granted to 670 mostly distressed returning overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to help them set up small businesses and prevent them from accepting risky jobs abroad.

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Money sent in by OFWs hit $6.9 billion by end-April

jacobo — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:33 CST

Money sent in by overseas Filipino workers (OFW) reached $6.9 billion as of end-April, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said on Monday.

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167 Migrant Workers in Malaysia Return to Burma

jacobo — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:33 CST

In the wake of attacks on Burmese migrants in Malaysia, 167 Burmese nationals returned to Burma from Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, Eleven News reported.

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10 migrant workers return from Mongolia

jacobo — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:33 CST

Ten migrant workers from Changde, Hunan province, who were lured to Mongolia to work as gold miners returned to Hunan on Sunday, Xinhua News Agency reported.

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Govt told to protect migrant workers

jacobo — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:33 CST

The National Commission on Violence Against Women (Komnas Perempuan) is calling on the government to ratify ILO Convention No. 189 on decent work for domestic workers as the majority of migrant workers abroad are females in the domestic sector.

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Baldoz admits govt flubbed job creation

jacobo — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:33 CST

Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz has acknowledged before a leaders’ meeting at the International Labor Organization (ILO) in Geneva that the country’s robust economic growth, highlighted by the 7.8-percent expansion of gross domesti

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Gulf nations pledge to secure migrant rights

jacobo — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:33 CST

KATHMANDU: Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries have repeated their commitment to secure migrant rights during an International Labour Organisation conference in Geneva. Labour ministers of GCC countries have promised to provide decent work for migrant workers, the Bahrain News Agency reported.

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Saudi’s VoIP Bans Hits Migrant Workers Hardest

jacobo — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:33 CST

Saudi authorities recently arrested five Indian migrants for selling internet telephone cards, used largely by migrant workers to communicate inexpensively with family members overseas.

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Parliament to raise issue of Myanmar migrant workers in Malaysia if delegation’s tasks incomplete: MP

jacobo — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:33 CST

If Myanmar government’s special delegation sent to Malaysia to investigate recent attacks on Myanmar migrant workers fails to accomplish their tasks, the issue will be raised in Parliament, a Lower House MP has said.

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Petition Seeks to Save Lives of Repatriated N.Koreans

jacobo — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:33 CST

A petition to save nine North Korean young defectors who were taken from Laos to North Korea on May 27 has gained growing support.

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DOLE acquires property in Taipei

jacobo — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:33 CST

LABOR Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said some 80,000 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Taiwan will now find it easier to seek help from the Philippine Overseas Labor Office (Polo) with the government’s acquisition of a property in Taipei that will provide various OFW-related services.

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1,300 migrant workers sent back dead in five months

jacobo — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:33 CST

The country’s economy thrives with the money they send back home.

They earn the money that comprises staggering remittance figures of Tk12.2bn and Tk14bn, by engaging in all kinds of hazardous works abroad, often at the cost of their lives.

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Human trafficking continues unabated

jacobo — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:33 CST

KATHMANDU: Human trafficking in the country has been growing under the guise of foreign employment in recent months. Human traffickers have been using tourist visas — popularly known as visit visas — to send women migrant workers abroad.

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Burmese Migrant Community in Malaysia Simmers after Attacks

jacobo — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:33 CST

KUALA LUMPUR — Differing accounts are emerging from Burmese migrants and refugees in Malaysia about recent deadly violence here that has claimed several lives and pitted Burmese groups in Malaysia against each other.

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Government told: Prepare for impact of growing ‘reverse migration’

jacobo — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:33 CST

Migrants’ rights group Migrante on Wednesday called on the Aquino administration to prepare for the worst impact of “reverse migration” as more Filipino migrant workers are expected to return home in the coming months.

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Economic, social pressures behind Kuwait crackdown on foreign workers

jacobo — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:33 CST

KUWAIT - The narrow, cracked streets of the district of Jleeb al-Shuyoukh, down the road from Kuwait's main airport, would normally be bustling with Indian and Bangladeshi workers by late morning, just before the summer sun becomes unbearable.

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Refugee Repatriation Talks Held in Karen State Capital

jacobo — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:33 CST

CHIANG MAI, Thailand—The UN refugee agency has met with high-ranking Burmese officials in the Karen State capital to discuss plans of repatriating more than 140,000 Burmese refugees over the border in Thailand.

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Govt Delegation Travels to Malaysia to Probe Violence against Burmese

jacobo — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:33 CST

A special delegation, led by senior officials from Burma’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Labor, departed for Malaysia on Tuesday evening to probe violence against Burmese migrant workers there, state-owned newspaper The Mirror reported on Wednesday.

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China deports Myanmar migrant workers

jacobo — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:33 CST

Myanmar migrant workers entering China using temporary boarder passes are being deported for over-staying, according to local immigration officials.

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Migrant labour inseparable part of agriculture sector

jacobo — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:33 CST

Migrant labour seems to be a very important and inseparable part of the economy, agriculture sector in particular, of the state.

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Migrants having tough time in Malaysia

jacobo — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:33 CST

KATHMANDU: Problems of Nepali migrant workers have been increasing in Malaysia — the first preferred job destination of blue-collar workers — in recent months following minimum wage dispute.

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Qatar to treat workers fairly

jacobo — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:33 CST

KATHMANDU: Qatar — the most preferred job market for Nepali workers in the Gulf region — is all set to frame migrant workers-friendly policies.

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11,000 illegal Lankans to return home from Saudi

jacobo — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:33 CST

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.

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MP loan assistance program benefits 115 overseas workers

jacobo — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:33 CST

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.

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Binay: Taiwan's economy will collapse if OFWs leave

jacobo — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:33 CST

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

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Consular field office set up in Riyadh for absconded workers

jacobo — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:33 CST

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.

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Labour rights pose challenge to Gulf building boom

jacobo — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:33 CST

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.

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Labour law violation: 15 firms face criminal cases

jacobo — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:33 CST

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.

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Migration cost to be limited to 2 months’ pay

jacobo — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:33 CST

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.

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Kazakhstan hosts ministerial conference on refugee, migration problems

jacobo — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:33 CST

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.

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Malaysian police arrest dozens of Myanmar workers

jacobo — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:33 CST

Dozens of migrant workers were arrested by the Malaysian police on Wednesday, a day after the Myanmar government urged Malaysia to investigate recent attacks made on its citizens working in the country.

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Mixed migration trends

jacobo — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:33 CST

International migration has many forms and aspects, and trends change historically. For Pakistan, out-migration is today important, since overseas Pakistanis send home sizeable amounts of money. But not all aspects of migration are beneficial to the various sending and receiving countries.

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Kachin State Conflict Increases Human Trafficking to China: Report

jacobo — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:33 CST

The Burmese government’s offensive against Kachin rebels in northern Burma has greatly increased the risk of human trafficking along the Sino-Burmese border, according to a Kachin rights advocacy group.

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Close to 2-M OFWs hired in 2012

jacobo — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:33 CST

MANILA, Philippines - Filipino workers have remained popular among foreign employers.

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Repatriates push medical aid for stranded OFWs

jacobo — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:33 CST

A group of repatriates from Saudi Arabia and Jordan troop to the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration main office in Pasay City Thursday morning, calling for on-site medical assistance for stranded overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), alarmed, in part, by the growing number of coronavirus cases in the Middle East.

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OWWA conducts learning assistance activities for families of OFWs

jacobo — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:33 CST

SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union, June 6 (PIA) -- The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration in the Ilocos region had an annual Learning Support Activity (LSA) program with learning assistance activities for families of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs).

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Sri Lanka : 14,000 Sri Lankan migrant workers registered during Saudi grace period to leave or legalize stay

jacobo — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:33 CST

Jun 05, Colombo: Sri Lanka Minister of Foreign Employment Promotion Dilan Perera says that around 14,000 Sri Lankans have registered so far at the Sri Lankan Embassy in Saudi Arabia to leave that country or to legalize their status during a grace period provided for the illegally staying foreigners.

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39 distressed Pinoy workers repatriated from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia

jacobo — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:33:33 CST

At least 39 distressed Filipino workers were repatriated from two countries in the Middle East — Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

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