What a great news for many overseas Filipino workers to work in Australia. This came after an employer’s group there opened the idea of subsidizing the deployment of professionals and skilled workers to Down Under. The move would surely create a great relief for many Filipinos who have been hankering to leave the Philippines to […]
THE UNFINISHED BUSINESS
To Boyet, Maybe your nickname is an unfamiliar sound to those people who are keen enough in observing of what they hear and putting meaning on it. In China, most particularly the Fokienese speaking people of Xiamen, and the dominant ethnic group of Taiwan, they give meaning to characters they’re unfamiliar with like; Boyet, your […]
A trip to Caracas, Venezuela
The plane flew through the thick white Caribbean clouds with relative ease as it approached the green hills that adorn the coast of Venezuela. I look out the window as the plane begins to make its descent into Aeropuerto Internacional Simon Bolivar (or Maiquetia as its commonly referred to). It’s been two years since I […]
UNITE against RACISM
The mount of a hideous fresh irrational fear is intimidating multiculturalism. One of the most significant ways the world has distorted since the dreadful felony of September 11 has been the increase of an unsightly strain of Islamophobia all through the Western humanity. Beginning this new ideological virus Australia has, regrettably, established far from immune. […]
Bogus job offers abroad
Time and again, it is frustrating to hear that some unscrupulous people were reaping huge profits at the expense of innocent women, whose only intention was to land a job for them to improve their lives and that of their families. Instead, they ended up as prostitutes in some brothels in some parts of Asia, which is […]
Barking at the wrong tree
CNN Anchor Lou Dobbs seems to be myopic when it comes to analysing the statements made by presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, when she suggested to the federal government to increase the H1B visas from a low level to about 115,000 per year. No matter how he espoused to stop any attempt by legislators to increase […]