PASAY CITY – Former Dubai-based bus driver Lisandro feels less awkward despite having been on the road on a passenger seat for over-10 hours.

He and 136 male bus drivers have grown accustomed away from the steering wheel since having been stranded in Dubai for three months before coming home April.

This is councilor Norma Macalidong (municipal 2) in Rome, Italy.

The former domestic worker is among eight Filipinos elected as consiglieri aggiunti (council adviser), on behalf of the migrant population, in some of Rome’s 20 municipalities or villages.

THE current apparent absence of serious concern over the A(H1N1) virus is not unlike the atmosphere after health officials declared a pandemic at the same time I and other Filipinos traveled from Italy.

Inside my flight from Rome to Hong Kong, I inadvertently saw a Chinese couple French-kiss; blue surgical masks forgotten, the straps hanging on steel arm-rests.

QUEZON CITY – A study that concluded female migrate to the United States out of filial ties resonates as the nonprofit ethnic media organization behind the study focused on immigrants to celebrate Labor Day.

The New America Media group posted on its website a commentary by Manuel Pastor, Professor of Geography and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, which emphasized the importance of immigrants.

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MANILA — Rey Torres dreamed of a better life for his wife and five children when he left a neighborhood of wooden shacks and burning trash piles to drive a bus on a U.S. military base near Baghdad.