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Recruiters
warn Japan's migration law forcing entertainers to go illegal
PROMOTERS
and recruiters of entertainers are blaming Japanese immigration
laws for forcing the hands of an increasing number of Filipino
women to grab illegal ways to enter or stay in that country. Constricted
labor processing to Japan has displaced Filipino entertainers
who, according to their promoters and recruiters, are engaging
in illegal activities to ensure they can still work in that country.
TRISHA MARCELO reports for the OFW Journalism
Consortium, Inc. Full
story
DAWN
rising on growth pains in Japanese-Filipino children advocacy
MANILA
– THE nonprofit Development Action for Women Network celebrated
its tenth year recently as it continues to provide assistance to
Filipinas going to Japan as entertainers, and to their Japanese-Filipino
children (JFC). But as CES RODRIGUEZ of the OFW
Journalism Consortium, Inc. reports, stricter Japanese immigration
requirements for entertainers are giving birth to new issues for
DAWN, the Filipina entertainers, and the JFC to advocate. Full
story
OFWs:
Pirates from the Caribbean?
MANILA - SOME overseas Filipino workers may resemble
Johnny Depp, but unlike the esteemed pirate, they are regarded as
"unwitting" couriers of bootleg videos to and from the
Philippines, experts told the OFW Journalism Consortium. An official
of Association of Video Distributors of the Philippines (AvidPhil)
said the government should look into this. TRISHA MARCELO
and ISAGANI DE LA PAZ report for the OFW Journalism
Consortium, Inc. Full
story
Absentee
voting book still good read amid charter change bids
QUEZON CITY --- WHAT’S blue and nearing obsolescence but still
worth reading? It’s the book entitled “Overseas Absentee
Voting: The Philippine Experience,” whose author – Atty.
Henry Rojas - is preventing the issue from dying amid renewed efforts
to change the country’s constitution. LEO J. SANTIAGO,
JR. and ISAGANI DE LA PAZ share their
insights in this book review for the OFW Journalism Consortium,
Inc. Full
story
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