MANILA ? Charg? d’Affaires, a.i. (CDA) Mariano A. Dumia of the Philippine Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon reported to the Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto G. Romulo that the Embassy?s overcrowded Welfare Center has emptied out as 139 Filipino workers, some of whom had been in the Center for as long as ten months, are scheduled to arrive in Manila at 2:45 p.m. today.
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MANILA — Taking its cue from the results of an independent exit poll by a local Hong Kong paper, an alliance of organizations composed of OFWs and their families expressed confidence that the Gabriela Women?s Partylist will lead partylist elections among OFWs and their families.
The exit poll by The Sun was conducted among nearly 600 OFW voters outside the Bayanihan Center polling place on April 15 and 22, the first two Sundays of OAV voting.
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MANILA — President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has instructed the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) to immediately work for the repatriation of the remains of four overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who were reportedly killed during a rocket attack in Baghdad, Iraq Wednesday.
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MANILA — President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo thanked the Shariah courts in Saudi Arabia, including its ruler King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, for the release yesterday of overseas Filipino worker (OFW) Sarah Dematera who was convicted to hang for allegedly killing her female employer in the oil-rich kingdom in 1992.
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Zamboanga City–Expressing his gratitude to Overseas
Filipino Workers (OFWs) who gave the Philippines $10
billion worth of remittances in 2005, Team Unity
Senatorial Candidate Cesar Montano said that he will
help ease the lives of OFWs and their families if he
gets elected in the Senate. ?The OFWs are the
lifeline of the country. It is just right that we
give them the better treatment that they deserve?, he
said.
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