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                    [Title] => OWWA may bagong hepe
                    [Summary] => Uupo na ngayong araw bilang bagong administrator ng Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) si Virgilio "Ver" Angelo kapalit ni Wilhelm Soriano matapos na pormal na lagdaan ni Pangulong Arroyo ang appointment paper ng una noong Oktubre 10, 2002.

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Labor Secretary Patricia Sto. Tomas said Malacañang is set to name a new OWWA chief to replace incumbent administrator Wilhelm Soriano, who has been indisposed for the past two months.

"We expect that by the end of the month, a new OWWA chief will be appointed and will assume (the post) by November," Sto. Tomas told reporters.
[DatePublished] => 2002-10-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097338 [AuthorName] => Mayen Jaymalin [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 169528 [Title] => Lawmaker dares Soriano: Present ‘report card’ [Summary] => How has Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) chief Wilhelm Soriano fared as chief custodian of the trust funds of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs)?

This Bulacan Rep. Willie Villarama wants to know as he called on Soriano to come out with his own "report card" on his performance as OWWA chief.

Soriano, according to Villarama, has to come clean and prove his "fidelity to his fiduciary obligations" to OFWs whose money is entrusted to his care.
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Labor Secretary Patricia Sto. Tomas said yesterday she is confident she will retain her post despite moves by disgruntled employees of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) to oust her.

"I am not disturbed because my conscience is clear and I have never done anything that is against the interest of the labor sector or against the interest of overseas Filipino workers for that matter," she said, reacting to reports that OWWA employees have launched a signature campaign for her ouster.
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This, as the Commission on Audit (COA) reported yesterday that Soriano is courting possible charges of illegal disbursement of funds for allowing the operations of OWWA without an approved budget.

Labor Secretary Patricia Sto. Tomas said no OWWA budget has been approved until now simply because the Soriano-led welfare agency has refused to follow the board of trustees’ spending guidelines.
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Kinilala ang nasawing OFW na si Dante Galang, 45, tubong Pampanga, isang steel fixer ng SARCO (SCECO West) Shuaiba Power Plant sa Archidoron, P.O. Box 1714 Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
[DatePublished] => 2002-06-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Bansa [SectionUrl] => bansa [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 163524 [Title] => India-Pakistan evacuation tsansa ng OWWA na magpakitang gilas [Summary] => Hinikayat kahapon ni Sen. Loren Legarda ang Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) na pangunahan ang posibleng repatriation ng overseas Filipino workers na maaaring maipit sa gulo sa pagitan ng nuclear powers na India at Pakistan.

Sinabi ni Legarda na dapat patunayan ng OWWA na di lang pagyayabang ang sinabi ng hepe nitong si Wilhelm Soriano na kung kakailanganin ay kaya nitong magsagawa ng maramihang repatriation tulad noong nangyari noong panahon ng Gulf War.
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Juluis Elejorde, 34, from Angono, Rizal, was handed the check upon disembarking from an Aseana Airlines flight at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport yesterday.

Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) administrator Wilhelm Soriano welcomed Elejorde as the lucky overseas Filipino worker for the day.

The lucky OFW said the added bonus would go a long way in making his family of four happy this Christmas.
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Vice President and DFA Secretary Teofisto Guingona said Pakistan is now in danger because of the war that has erupted in Afghanistan, its neighboring country.

"We are advising Filipinos to refrain from going to Pakistan where danger exists," he said.
[DatePublished] => 2001-10-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804865 [AuthorName] => Pia Lee-Brago [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 116989 [Title] => Recruiter ng dalagita na ginahasa ng 15 Arabo, tugis [Summary] => Hinahanting na ng mga awtoridad ang isang Nora Aquino Garcia, umano’y recruiter ng 15-anyos na dalagita na ginahasa ng 15 Arabo sa Kuwait at ngayon ay limang buwang buntis.

Ayon kay Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) head Wilhelm Soriano, tinututukan ng kanyang tanggapan ang kaso ng biktima na itinago sa pangalang Patricia na napariwara ang kinabukasan matapos lokohin ng suspek na recruiter.
[DatePublished] => 2001-06-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Bansa [SectionUrl] => bansa [URL] => ) ) )
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                    [Title] => OWWA may bagong hepe
                    [Summary] => Uupo na ngayong araw bilang bagong administrator ng Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) si Virgilio "Ver" Angelo kapalit ni Wilhelm Soriano matapos na pormal na lagdaan ni Pangulong Arroyo ang appointment paper ng una noong Oktubre 10, 2002.

[DatePublished] => 2002-11-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Bansa [SectionUrl] => bansa [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 180724 [Title] => Replacement for Soriano named soon [Summary] => The scandal-rocked Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) will soon have a new chief.

Labor Secretary Patricia Sto. Tomas said Malacañang is set to name a new OWWA chief to replace incumbent administrator Wilhelm Soriano, who has been indisposed for the past two months.

"We expect that by the end of the month, a new OWWA chief will be appointed and will assume (the post) by November," Sto. Tomas told reporters.
[DatePublished] => 2002-10-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097338 [AuthorName] => Mayen Jaymalin [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 169528 [Title] => Lawmaker dares Soriano: Present ‘report card’ [Summary] => How has Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) chief Wilhelm Soriano fared as chief custodian of the trust funds of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs)?

This Bulacan Rep. Willie Villarama wants to know as he called on Soriano to come out with his own "report card" on his performance as OWWA chief.

Soriano, according to Villarama, has to come clean and prove his "fidelity to his fiduciary obligations" to OFWs whose money is entrusted to his care.
[DatePublished] => 2002-07-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 167993 [Title] => Sto. Tomas downplays ouster move [Summary] => She won’t budge.

Labor Secretary Patricia Sto. Tomas said yesterday she is confident she will retain her post despite moves by disgruntled employees of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) to oust her.

"I am not disturbed because my conscience is clear and I have never done anything that is against the interest of the labor sector or against the interest of overseas Filipino workers for that matter," she said, reacting to reports that OWWA employees have launched a signature campaign for her ouster.
[DatePublished] => 2002-07-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 167755 [Title] => OWWA chief defying spending guidelines [Summary] => Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) chief Wilhelm Soriano is probably in for more trouble.

This, as the Commission on Audit (COA) reported yesterday that Soriano is courting possible charges of illegal disbursement of funds for allowing the operations of OWWA without an approved budget.

Labor Secretary Patricia Sto. Tomas said no OWWA budget has been approved until now simply because the Soriano-led welfare agency has refused to follow the board of trustees’ spending guidelines.
[DatePublished] => 2002-07-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097338 [AuthorName] => Mayen Jaymalin [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 165258 [Title] => Pinoy sa Saudi hulog sa gusali, patay [Summary] => Isang overseas Filipino worker (OFW) ang nalitson ng buhay kahapon sa Jeddah, Saudi Arabia makaraang aksidenteng mag-collapsed ang 5-storey scaffoldings na kanyang tinutuntungan at mahulog sa loob ng chimney tower ng pinagtatrabahuang power plant kasama ng iba pang trabahante.

Kinilala ang nasawing OFW na si Dante Galang, 45, tubong Pampanga, isang steel fixer ng SARCO (SCECO West) Shuaiba Power Plant sa Archidoron, P.O. Box 1714 Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
[DatePublished] => 2002-06-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Bansa [SectionUrl] => bansa [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 163524 [Title] => India-Pakistan evacuation tsansa ng OWWA na magpakitang gilas [Summary] => Hinikayat kahapon ni Sen. Loren Legarda ang Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) na pangunahan ang posibleng repatriation ng overseas Filipino workers na maaaring maipit sa gulo sa pagitan ng nuclear powers na India at Pakistan.

Sinabi ni Legarda na dapat patunayan ng OWWA na di lang pagyayabang ang sinabi ng hepe nitong si Wilhelm Soriano na kung kakailanganin ay kaya nitong magsagawa ng maramihang repatriation tulad noong nangyari noong panahon ng Gulf War.
[DatePublished] => 2002-06-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Bansa [SectionUrl] => bansa [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 143358 [Title] => P10,000 for returning OFW [Summary] => A Filipino machine operator in the Mariana Islands came home for the holidays and found himself P10,000 richer.

Juluis Elejorde, 34, from Angono, Rizal, was handed the check upon disembarking from an Aseana Airlines flight at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport yesterday.

Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) administrator Wilhelm Soriano welcomed Elejorde as the lucky overseas Filipino worker for the day.

The lucky OFW said the added bonus would go a long way in making his family of four happy this Christmas.
[DatePublished] => 2001-12-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 136299 [Title] => Pinoys can’t go to Pakistan [Summary] => The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has issued a travel advisory warning Filipinos against going to Pakistan.

Vice President and DFA Secretary Teofisto Guingona said Pakistan is now in danger because of the war that has erupted in Afghanistan, its neighboring country.

"We are advising Filipinos to refrain from going to Pakistan where danger exists," he said.
[DatePublished] => 2001-10-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804865 [AuthorName] => Pia Lee-Brago [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 116989 [Title] => Recruiter ng dalagita na ginahasa ng 15 Arabo, tugis [Summary] => Hinahanting na ng mga awtoridad ang isang Nora Aquino Garcia, umano’y recruiter ng 15-anyos na dalagita na ginahasa ng 15 Arabo sa Kuwait at ngayon ay limang buwang buntis.

Ayon kay Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) head Wilhelm Soriano, tinututukan ng kanyang tanggapan ang kaso ng biktima na itinago sa pangalang Patricia na napariwara ang kinabukasan matapos lokohin ng suspek na recruiter.
[DatePublished] => 2001-06-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Bansa [SectionUrl] => bansa [URL] => ) ) )
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