A manager in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) faced a court on Thursday for allegedly installing a camera in the office restroom and peeping on a 22-year-old Filipina receptionist, the news site Khaleej Times said.

Residents of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are considered as the sixth-richest in the world, based on the 2011 estimates by International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Philippine and Saudi Arabia officials have agreed to work more closely together to fight human trafficking and to ensure the rights of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) there.

The Filipino woman who was captured by Egyptian tribesmen during a Catholic pilgrimage last week claimed that her captors had been kind to her and two other companions during the six-hour ordeal.

Filipino golfer Juvic Pagunsan who is in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for the $2.5-million “Omega Dubai Desert Classic” said he found his kababayans there “inspiring.”

Filipino dentists in Saudi Arabia helped promote the Philippine government’s overseas absentee voting (OAV) registration efforts for the 2013 elections.

Resident-employers in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) are claiming that the salaries of foreign household service workers there have doubled in recent years, amid “economic slowdown” and stagnant pay for the locals that hire their help.

For becoming pregnant even though she was allegedly not yet married, a 28-year-old Filipina faced a misdemeanor court in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

The Philippines and Saudi Arabia have agreed on a standard service contract for Filipino household workers in the Kingdom, a KSA-based news site reported Sunday.

A 12-year-old Filipino boy in Saudi Arabia — Nigel William Canlapan — recently launched his second book at the Philippine Embassy in Riyadh.