Bureau of Immigration Warns Public About New Trafficking Modus Using Fake Church Mission Trips

The Bureau of Immigration (BI) is warning the public about a new human trafficking scheme where victims are made to pretend they’re going on...

10 Best Small Business Ideas in the Philippines

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Reintroducing ROTC in the Philippines

ROTC in the Philippines stands for Reserve Officer Training Corps, a program that provides military training to high school and college students. The program aims...

Breaking the Cycle of Vote-buying and Fraud in Philippine Elections

Philippine elections are a vital component of the country’s democratic process, held regularly to allow citizens to choose their leaders at various levels of...

How Ex-Dubai OFW Started Business in Philippines with 10K Seed Money

Being away constantly from your spouse and your children are always an everyday hardship for all our Modern day heroes. For mothers who are...

8 Reasons Why It’s Hard to Find Jobs in the Philippines

For many years, the government of the Philippines has been preaching the growing number of job vacancies. But it's puzzling to realize how this does not translate to real jobs as joblessness and difficulty to find means of livelihood continue to send troubling signals to the labor market. According to the Department of Trade and Industry, 820,255 business establishments were...

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Temptations

Most of us tend to demonize temptations. We usually associate them with the devil and eternal damnation. But actually, the temptation is a neutral...

OEC Online Application Procedure

In an effort to streamline arrangement of returning overseas Filipino workers to the Philippines, the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration has soft launched an online facility to apply for overseas employment certificate (OEC). The online facility -- accessible at http://bmonline.poea.gov.ph/ -- is available for use by Filipino workers on vacation, rehired, or returning to the same employer, and with existing record...

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