
News by Country: Philippines
22 January 2021
· Asia
Today: Philippines allows foreign travel to resume (ABC News,
21 October 2020)
·
Philippine remittances dip 4.2 pct in August 2020 (Xinhua
Net, 15 October 2020)
·
Over 254K OFWs flown home amid COVID-19 pandemic
(Inquirer, 15 October 2020)
·
3.3 million pinoy workers displaced by pandemic
(Manila Bulletin, 15 October 2020)
·
IMF, World Bank marshall forces to push for aid for
poorest (Manila
Bulletin, 15 October 2020)
·
Philippines: 4.8 mln workers in tourism industry hit
by pandemic (Daiji
World, 14 October 2020)
·
Workers oppose exemptions in payment of 13th month pay
(Manila Bulletin, 13 October 2020)
· Philippine
gov't hires 10,136 more contact tracers (Rappler, 5
October 2020)
· Artificial
intelligence to link unemployed tourism workers with jobs (Manila
Bulletin, 4 October 2020)
· Nearly
200,000 migrant workers sent home to Philippines
(Anadolu Agency, 28 September 2020)
·
Filipino workers will ‘benefit from Qatar’s reforms’:
Philippine labour chief (Doha News, 24
September 2020)
·
Philippines’ Army of Migrant Workers Retrains for Life
Back Home (Bloomberg, 24 September 2020)
·
Philippines lifts overseas travel ban on health
workers (AA News, 21 September 2020)
·
Philippines Gazettes Law Establishing Tax Exemptions,
Incentives for Health Workers, Corporations Due to Coronavirus
(Bloomberg, 18 September 2020)
·
Philippines considers relaxing COVID-19 travel ban for
nurses
(CNA, 17 September 2020)
·
Pandemic 'hero' Filipino nurses struggle to leave home
(Today, 16 September 2020)
·
Philippine
president in ‘humanitarian’ plea to Malaysia over virus-stranded Filipinos (Arab News, 16 September 2020)
·
Filipino migrant worker tests positive for coronavirus
upon arrival in Taiwan (Taiwan
News, 14 September 2020)
·
Worst time ever to be an overseas Filipino worker
(CNA, 13 September 2020)
· Filipino
Health Workers Protest Overseas Work Restrictions (The
Diplomat, 10 September 2020)
· For
Filipino migrant workers, coronavirus dashes their ticket to a better life (The
Washington Post, 10 September 2020)
· Philippine
garment makers expect 21,000 layoffs as US orders fall (Nikkei
Asian Review, 8 September 2020)
· Philippine
inflation eases to 3-month low (Nikkei Asian Review,
4 September 2020)
· Canadian
gov’t donates P30.6M worth of N95 face masks to DOH (Inquirer,
3 September 2020)
· Philippines’
unemployment rate declines as economy reopens (hrmasia, 3
September 2020)
· DOH
seeks more benefits for health workers (Inquirer,
1 September 2020)
· Manila
bishop: Frontline workers against COVID-19 are ‘modern day heroes’ (Asia News,
31 August 2020)
· Recycling
value chains in South-east Asia shut down by Covid-19 risk closures (Business
Times, 31 August 2020)
·
With largest share of migrant nurses, entire U.S.
Filipino community hit hard by COVID-19 (NBC News, 27 August 2020)
· ADB
to Help Boost Philippines’ COVID-19 Health Response with $125 Million Loan
(India Education Diary, 26 August 2020)
· Philippines’
returning workers are heroes. Yet many are stranded, competing with countrymen
for jobs in Manila (CNA, 25 August 2020)
·
Philippines Lifts Ban on Medical Workers Leaving the
Country (Benar News, 20 August 2020)
· Villanueva:
PhilHealth has sufficient funds to cover workers’ COVID-19 testing (Inquirer,
19 August 2020)
· Strong
quake in Philippines kills one, damages COVID-19 quarantine centre (CNA, 18
August 2020)
· Philippines
failing to contain coronavirus, despite multiple lockdowns (SCMP, 17
August 2020)
· Why
Duterte must own up to the Philippines' COVID-19 disaster (Nikkei
Asian Review, 14 August 2020)
· Nurse
who died of COVID-19 gets P7,000 hazard pay, not P30,000 – daughter (Inquirer,
14 August 2020)
· Philippines
unlikely to keep lockdown despite surging infections (Bangkok
Post, 11 August 2020)
· Unions
urge government to intervene on behalf of 'exploited' Filipino Austal workers
(WA Today, 7 August 2020)
· Coronavirus:
Philippine doctors wary of Duterte's 'militaristic' response
(Taiwan News, 6 August 2020)
· Virus-hit
Philippine economy plunges into recession (The Jakarta
Post, 6 August 2020)