If Southeast Asians stood in a straight file, Filipinos would be at the second spot, in a line according to height, reports Inquirer.net. According to a study that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations conducted, Filipinos are the second shortest people in the region.
Preliminary results of a study revealed that Filipino caregivers in Canada are struggling to advance in their careers, as many of them stick to caregiving-related jobs even after completing the Live-In Caregiver Program (LCP), a federal government program that allows Temporary Foreign Workers to seek permanent residency and eventually citizenship, reports ABS-CBN News.
The Subdivision and Housing Developers Association (SHDA) hopes to build one million new homes by 2016, reports Inquirer.net. SHDA, the country’s largest housing development association, said the past year highlighted the nation's housing problems, especially in the face of national calamities.
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong voiced dismay over the reported harassment of Filipinos organizing a Philippine Independence Day event there, reports GMA News. Lee, in a post on his Facebook page dated Saturday morning, branded as "a disgrace to Singapore" those who harassed the organizers by spamming their Facebook page.
Manila’s ranking among the world's "global cities" fell by 12 notches in 2014, but according to a US-based consulting firm the Philippine capital is likely to progress in the next decade, reports Interaksyon.com.
Over a hundred Filipino teachers in Maryland may soon lose their American dream after their employer announced it will not likely continue sponsoring their work visas, reports ABS-CBN News/Balitang America. The school system in Prince George County sent letters to about 150 foreign teachers — most of them from the Philippines — about the discontinuation.
A Filipino migrant worker in Saudi Arabia is currently detained and will soon be sent home after he was caught in possession of pornographic pictures, reports GMA News. The pictures, he said, were in the archives folder of an external hard drive that was confiscated from him by Saudi authorities last January 29 upon his arrival in Jeddah from a vacation in the Philippines.
After a Filipino casualty in the United Arab Emirates, an overseas Filipino worker who recently arrived in Manila was tested positive for the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome-Corona Virus (MERS-CoV), reports Inquirer.net. Health Secretary Enrique Ona said Wednesday the OFW, who is a nurse, had contact with the victim who died in UAE. The male health worker is now quarantined.
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