
Kuwait will be the second Middle Eastern country after Bahrain to end the sponsorship system or locally called kafeel. Last 2009, Bahrain abolished the sponsorship system of its foreign workers which was likened to “modern-day slavery.”

Kuwait will be the second Middle Eastern country after Bahrain to end the sponsorship system or locally called kafeel. Last 2009, Bahrain abolished the sponsorship system of its foreign workers which was likened to “modern-day slavery.”
Of all the Filipinos, OFWs are said to be the ones extremely vulnerable to HIV. Based on statistics, OFWs account for 32% of all our HIV and full-blown AIDS cases.
There are at least 180 Filipinos languishing in various jails in China like in Guangzhou, Fujian, Shanghai, Urumqi and Tibet due to drug trafficking.
As an expatriate, we will be interested on what absconding is and what effect does it have on expatriates who have fled or run away from their employers or authorities.
The Embassy of the Republic of the Philippines in Kuwait reminds Overseas Filipino Workers or OFWs that the registration as Absentee Voter for the National Elections of 2010 is still going on at the Embassy.
Good news for OFWs – the lifting of Lebanon deployment ban appears to be near and new jobs could be available again.