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The Harvard Innovation Labs member-led CrisisOps SAFE wants to make sure no Filipino in the Middle East goes missing in a warzone ever again.

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In this first edition of a new series called What It Feels Like, a Filipina legal translator writes about what it’s like to sit with kababayan plaintiffs and defendants in court rooms in Dublin, helping them understand the proceedings. She also discusses how ordinary Filipinos are treated in foreign courts.
DUBLIN-In the winter of my sabbatical year, I found myself in Ireland's highest court. The Central Criminal Court, located just by Phoenix Park in this city, is where the gravest of crimes are tried, including international terrorism, drug smuggling, and ...
Around 160,000 overseas Filipino workers will benefit from the service.
Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC) has partnered with mobile app FastPay to provide more remittance options for Filipinos abroad. The service, however, will be exclusively available to migrant workers in Taiwan. ALSO READThe Most Reliable Banks in the Philippines, According to a ...
The company hopes to raise $200 million in processed payments globally this year.
BayaniPay, a financial technology startup, is looking to increase its processed payments tenfold, from $20 million in 2023 to $200 million within the year. This comes after the company secured an additional $3 million in fresh capital from investors Wavemaker Partners, PTGB, ...
No initial deposit and maintaining balance required.
Sending money to their families will soon become easier for Filipinos abroad with a new online banking service exclusively for overseas workers. The state-run Land Bank of the Philippines announced the launch of its GoBayani Savings, a digital deposit account that ...
Also, thank you for the remittances.
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. urged OFWs to keep buying condominium units and property back home as a way of investing in their home country, as he thanked them for the continuous flow of remittances.Speaking to the Filipino community in New ...
On top improved benefits.
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. on Thursday said the government would allow more nurses to be deployed abroad as he pushed for improved benefits.Marcos graced the 100th anniversary celebration of the Philippine Nurses Association, where he acknowledged that the salary and ...
The sad truths of the Filipino diaspora through my dad's OFW experience.
My father turns 60 this year, and for most of his life, he was away fighting somebody else's battles. Much like the millions of other overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), my old man spent his best years in unfamiliar land. He worked ...
Building the morale of OFWs is a first step.
Migrant workers advocate Susan "Toots" Ople on Tuesday said building the morale of overseas Filipino workers would be one of her priorities once she leads the newly-created Department of Migrant Workers.Ople, who has recently accepted the offer of presumptive president ...
Jillian Mendoza needs more surgeries.
Jillian Mendoza is a Filipina nanny working in Toronto, Canada. Last February 24, she was pushing a stroller with two toddlers aged 2 and 3 along St. Clair Avenue in the city when an SUV reportedly driven by a man in his ...
It’s a leap of faith for budding entrepreneur Percival Sandigan.
The pandemic has hit all of us in different ways. It's been nearly a year and it's not an exaggeration to say that people have sacrificed a lot. It has been a really hard year for everyone across the country ...
It may not be as much as you think.
Want to earn up to P81,000 per month?No, this isn't an investment scam. That's the average monthly salary of sea-based ship engineers in the U.S. with at least five years of experience. It emerged as the ...
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