One week after suspending operations due to the A(H1N1) threat, the Philippine Consulate General in Osaka, Japan has resumed normal operations.

The body of an overseas Filipino worker (OFW) reported to have been frozen in a Saudi morgue for almost six months has finally been brought home to Misamis Occidental in the southern Philippines.

As the proposed bill to double the monthly pay of government nurses and teachers has been shut down by a House panel, a recruitment consultant on Tuesday predicted that more of these Filipino workers would probably consider going abroad.

A Filipino security officer now faces trial after he was prosecuted Sunday for alleged burglary in an apartment at International City in the United Arab Emirates.

In the 1970s, many engineers and skilled workers left the country to work in the Middle East. Today, more women are now leaving the country to work abroad such as domestic workers and health professionals as the demand for land-based migrant workers has dramatically shifted from men to women.

The Department of Health (DOH) said that the first case of swine flu in the Philippines has been “contained.”

More than 1,000 Jews fleeing persecution in Nazi Germany found refuge in the faraway Philippines, thanks to the government’s “open doors” policy that Israel plans to honor with a monument next month, officials said Friday.

Overseas Filipino workers are demanding that they be included in the newly proposed minimum wage in Hong Kong.

In the wake of tremors that have been plaguing an area in northwestern Saudi Arabia for the past days, the Philippine Consulate General in Jeddah advised Filipinos to keep themselves “calm and composed.”

Filipino workers applying for work as domestic helper, baby sitter, nurse, flight attendant, and family driver in Saudi Arabia should be at least 21 years old, the Saudi government has said.