Philippine government

Filipinos urged to join Home Development Fund
Web posted at: 3/15/2010 6:5:12
Source ::: The Peninsula

Sharmaine Pamela Bautista, information officer of the POLO-OWWA in Qatar, explains before Filipino community leaders the benefits of the new Pag-IBIG fund law.

By CHRIS V PANGANIBAN

DOHA: Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) in Qatar are now obliged with a new law to register with the Philippine government’s Home Development Mutual Fund (HDMF) or more popularly known as Pag-IBIG fund.

The new law enacted through Republic Act 9697 (RA 9697) and takes effect since January 1 this year makes it already mandatory for all OFWs around the world to be covered with Pag-IBIG fund.

Cultural-Legal Training Centers for OFWs Guaranteed
Lakas-Kampi-CMD frontrunner Gilberto ”Gibo” Teodoro Jr. vowed last Sunday to establish more centers to conduct cultural and legal orientation for prospective migrant workers, mainly first timers on abroad employment as acknowledgment to the contribution of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) to the national economy.

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LITO BANAYO/MALAYA

‘One of them wants to be president of the benighted land.’

ROHAN Douglas is an adjunct professor at the Polytechnic University in New York and at the Macquairie University Applied Financial Centre in Australia and Singapore. He is also the founder and CEO of Quantifi, Inc, a leading provider of pricing models and risk analysis tools for structuring credit. He used to be director for global research at Citigroup and Salomon, Smith and Barney.

In his book titled “Credit Derivative Strategies”, he wrote about the financial prowess of a well-known Filipino, Manuel B. Villar Jr.

DOHA: After many years of hard work, hundreds of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) are now looking forward to finally getting their professional licences through a special board exam to be conducted here in December by the Philippine government’s Professional Regulation Commission (PRC).

The special board exams was realised through an executive order issued by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo which will be conducted every year for qualified OFWs in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE and other Middle East countries that have diplomatic relations with the Philippines.

In Qatar, the board exam hopefuls have been undergoing review classes on weekends over the past few months. The classes were made possible through the organised groups of Filipino architects, engineers and accountants.

Fellow Filipinos, Good news from GMA.

Starting January of 2010, Filipinos from all around the world will surely benefit from this one-of-a-kind service from the newly passed law by the government of the Philippines . The service is entitled Hatid Kabayan. Any Filipino who has lived in any part of the globe for more than six months is said to be entitled and will benefit from this service. As soon as he lands at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport, go to a special booth that has been set up for this purpose and fill up some forms, and all he has to do is show his passpot to confirm his status abroad and everything is all set.

This also applies to all immigrants and non-immigrants.

(Update 2) 10 OFWs killed in Afghan chopper crash

DUBAI - Ten Filipino workers were among 16 people killed when a civilian helicopter crashed at southern Afghanistan's largest NATO base on Sunday, official sources and a relative of one of the victims told ABS-CBN Middle East News Bureau.

In a telephone interview, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) spokesman Ed Malaya said Philippine embassy officials based in Pakistan, together with the appropriate officials, are now in Kabul to verify the report.

Malaya said there is an existing ban of deployment of Filipino workers to Afghanistan, and the DFA is urging everyone to comply with the ban.

MANILA, Philippines - The World Bank (WB) has denied sending e-mails telling overseas Filipino workers (OFW) about the alleged manipulation of dollar exchange rates and rigging of lotto draws in the Philippines.

In a statement, the international lending agency said that an e-mail saying that Philippine officials are manipulating exchange rates and lotto draws is circulating in the Internet and is being attributed to them.

The e-mail read: “Your government is manipulating the exchange rate for some years now. It is very much improbable and impossible that the Philippine peso is appreciating compare[d] to euro, British pound, riyal, and any other foreign currency."

It went on to say that the Philippine government also dictates the outcome of lotto draws.