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Banana growers eye resumption of trade with Iran

August 17, 2015 - 10:00am

Banana growers are eyeing to increase exports of Cavendish bananas to Iran after the United Nations (UN) lifted trade sanctions linked to nuclear activities on the Middle East country, the Pilipino Banana Growers...

Business

When a Filipino worker is beheaded abroad

By Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez | July 26, 2014 - 12:00am

Whenever a Filipino worker is beheaded abroad, or is executed by decapitation, or is sentenced to die, there is something in all of us Filipinos that also dies with him, or with her.

Freeman Opinion

25 Filipinas bound for Middle East intercepted at NAIA

By Rudy Santos | February 4, 2009 - 2:49pm

MANILA, Philippines--Members of the Migrant Compliance and Monitoring Group (MCMG) of the Bureau of Immigration offloaded from three different flights 25 Filipinas bound for the Middle East   last night ...

3,000 OFWs ‘stranded’ in RP amid new Saudi policy

April 9, 2007 - 12:00am

Over 3,000 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) cannot leave for Saudi Arabia because a new government hiring policy requires them to get a "visa attestation" from accredited agencies in that country, the local...

Headlines

Solon slams labor chief over OFW hiring limits

January 25, 2002 - 12:00am

Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel lashed out at Labor Secretary Patricia Sto. Tomas for "trivializing what appears to be a legitimate threat against our hundreds of thousands of overseas workers angling...

Headlines