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RP hosts 5th
RP-Malaysia
meeting on migrant workers |
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By Katrice R. Jalbuena, Reporter
The Philippines and Malaysia will
have the opportunity to discuss the status of Filipino workers
and refugees in Malaysia as the country hosts the 5th RP-Malaysia
Working Group on Migrant Workers on July 21 to 22.
Initiated in 2005, the annual
meeting is a functional forum to address bilateral concerns on the
status of Filipinos in Malaysia.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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Proposed bills can
improve lot of OFWs
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Congress, through the House
Committee on Overseas Workers Affairs, has taken the initiative to
enact new laws aimed at improving the lot of the overseas Filipino
workers (OFWs) and address problems that beset them.
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Villar: Govt
should attend to all OFWs on death row
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Senate President Manuel Villar
welcomes the commutation of sentence of overseas Filipino worker (OFW)
May Vecina from death to life imprisonment by Kuwaiti Emir Sabah
Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah on July 8.
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Japan-based OFWs
organize info forum
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A civil society group, the
Philippine Assistance Group (PAG), organized an Immigration
Awareness Forum on June 29 at the Philippine Embassy in Tokyo.
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People’s Global
Action launched for October meet in Manila
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The Philippine Working Group on
the Second Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD), a
coalition of civil society organizations (CSOs) in the Philippines
launched the Peoples’ Global Action on Migration,...
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IMMIGRATION SOLUTIONS
By Atty. Robert L. Reeves
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Drug use and
immigrant visas
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A person who has used or pos-sessed
drugs in the past will likely face significant problems in obtaining
an immigrant visa. Federal law makes aliens who used drugs
inadmissible under several immigration provisions.
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