from an April 2 report by The Borneo Post in Malaysia

SANDAKAN, MALAYSIA–A BIG majority of about 100 detained irregular migrants held up in an operation recently were Filipinos..

A Special Task Force, led by deputy director ACP Abdul Aziz Alwee, said a total of 313 people were checked during the first day of the two-day ‘Operasi Tanduk Siri’.

from an April 2 report by Sally Rae of the Otago Daily Times in New Zealand

OTAGO, NEW ZEALAND–FILIPINO dairy workers here and their employers have found as helpful two new guides for dairy farm workers and employrs to work together.

The guides “had to be a good thing,” said Filipino dairy farm manager Neil Molina, now seven years in New Zealand said the guides had to be a good thing, especially since migrant workers make adjustments upon their arrival here. Molina, who works for Greg and Kelly Kirkwood and manages a farm in the Maniototo area, has 12 Filipino staff.

from a March 31 report by Roger Phillips of Record Net (USA)

CALIFORNIA, USA—EXPIRING work visas will soon force some 15 Filipino teachers in Stockton’s Unified District in United States out of their classrooms.

The Filipino teachers came in US in 2007 with temporary visas, and their visas would expire next year, leaving them worried about the future of their teaching career.

from a March 31 report by Eunice Au of Asia One (Singapore)

KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA–FILIPINO maids are now in demand in Malaysia despite the higher wage employers have to pay for their services.

Asia One reported that Filipinas were sought because they were highly trained in doing household chores and in conversing in English.

from a March 29 report by the Visayan Daily Star

BACOLOD CITY, NEGROS OCCIDENTAL-RELTIVES of a missing Negrense domestic worker who left for Saudi Arabia are asking help to locate her.

Joebie Claraga Bautista, 41, was believed missing since June, 2011. In a Visayan Daily News report, John Leonard Monterona of Migrante-Middle East said a friend of Bautista informed her family last August, 2011 that she was being maltreated and sent back to the Philippines.