OFW

This article was written by a chinese columnist Chip Tsao who called the Philippines a “nation of servants.”, This has enraged Filipinos all over the world for his racial slur. The Russians sank a Hong Kong freighter last month, killing the seven Chinese seamen onboard. We can live with that-—Lenin and Stalin were once...
Read more »

The controversial article of Chinese writer Chip Tsao describing the Philippines as “a nation of servants” as well as his profile photo has been pulled out of the online edition of HK Magazine. Tsao’s March 27 article entitled “The War at Home,” which sparked uproar from politicians, migrant workers and Filipinos all over the...
Read more »

Money sent home by Filipinos working abroad have kept at least 4 million Filipinos out of poverty as of 2006, an Asian Development Bank (ADB) economist said Tuesday. Kelly Bird, senior economist at ADB’s Southeast Asia department, described remittances as "a major anti-poverty driver" in the country.
Read more »

The Filipino community in Hong Kong will launch street protests starting Sunday in light of a columnist’s branding of the Philippines as a "nation of servants," a Filipino envoy said on Tuesday. Romulo Salud, labor attache of the Philippine consulate general in Hong Kong, said in an interview over radio dzBB that the Filipino...
Read more »

Vice-President Noli de Castro on Friday said Philippine embassy officials in Kuwait are still working on getting a pardon for  two overseas Filipino workers, May Vecina and Marilou Ranario, even if they have already been saved from the death row. “At least, buhay yung tao. May possibility pa na mabigyan ng pardon. Dadagdagan natin...
Read more »