A Filipino domestic helper found to have been maltreated by her employer in Singapore has assured Philippine officials that she will return to the city state to pursue a case against her former boss.

The Philippines gained recognition anew in Cuba after two Filipinos graduated as new medical doctors from the Ciego de Avila in Cuba.

Adelyn Lubrico, an overseas Filipino worker in the US island of Saipan, was pregnant when she was fired from her job in 2006 as a quality control checker at a now defunct garment factory owned by the L&T Group of Companies in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI).

In a bid to ensure Filipino seafarers’ protection, a seafarers’ advocacy group will intensify its campaign to have Congress ratify the International Labor Organization’s (ILO) Maritime Labor Convention (MLC) of 2006.

Philippine officials in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) reminded Filipinos there against wearing skimpy, eye-teasing outfits and fighting in the streets, especially in the Sharjah emirate to avoid certain persecution.

Philippine officials in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) advised Filipinos there to provide the full names of their UAE-born children in applying for registration.

Labor Secretary Marianito Roque warned Filipino workers aspiring for employment in Afghanistan of the grave dangers involved, citing the case of 10 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who perished in a helicopter crash last week.

A Philippine school in Jeddah has opted not to suspend its classes even after one of its students got infected with the A(H1N1) virus.

Hong Kong has reported its second swine flu-related death after a Filipino domestic with the mutant virus died Monday.

Fourteen Filipina workers were rescued by the Task Force Against Illegal Recruitment (Tfair) from suspected Korean human traffickers in the northern province of Nueva Ecija last week, Vice President Noli De Castro has said.