The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and the Commission on Elections (Comelec) have started finalizing preparations for some 589,830 overseas Filipino workers to cast their votes in this year’s automated elections, as absentee voting starts April 10.

Philippine officials in China and Mongolia warned prospective job-seekers Wednesday not to fall for job offers as domestic helpers in the two countries, saying such a job is unlawful there.

A total of 44 Filipino seafarers working in a bankrupt casino ship docked in the United States arrived home Thursday, amid assurances from Philippine officials of assistance in getting their back pay.

Applicants for overseas work have been warned against promises of employment in South Korea through the issuance of a religious visa.

The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration has released the list of 150 students across the Philippines who qualified for its Education for Development Scholarship Program (EDSP) for school year 2010-2011.

The last batch of overseas Filipino workers (OFW) who went on strike in Saudi Arabia last year were repatriated on Monday, according to the Philippine post in Riyadh.

With the United Kingdom set to implement more stringent student visa guidelines to prevent “abuse by economic migrants,” a recruitment consultant expressed fears that the thousands of Filipino student nurses in the British isles may be negatively affected.

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has created a task force that seeks to stop to the rampant recruitment of overseas Filipinos as drug couriers by international drug syndicates.

The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) issued an assurance Thursday that it is doing its best to save the Filipina worker whose death sentence was upheld by Kuwait’s high court.

THE Philippine Embassy in Spain reported to the Department of Foreign Affairs an illegal recruitment operation that is currently being perpetrated by a syndicate using Spain as a destination for Filipino workers.