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Asking the difficult OFW question
Vice President Sara Duterte met with overseas Filipino workers in London last Sept. 9.—PHOTO FROM INDAY SARA DUTERTE FB PAGE
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October 1, 2026October 1, 2026Opinion

Asking the difficult OFW question

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While Vice President Sara Duterte is often criticized for her frequent trips abroad—her “world tour”—the specter of 2028 grows larger and the question of how to stop another Duterte presidency becomes harder to ask. What’s obvious is that Sara Duterte is securing the vote of the overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), a small but not insignificant...

Asean committee
Members of the Asean committee on the implementation of the Asean declaration on the protection and promotion of the rights of migrant workers meet in Indonesia. —ASEAN.ORG PHOTO
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April 25, 2026April 25, 2026Economy

The mirage behind Asean’s vision of free labor flows 

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When the Asean Economic Community was officially launched in 2015, the rhetoric was intoxicating. A single market and production base. The free flow of skilled labor. A region where a Filipino engineer could compete on equal footing with a Singaporean counterpart, where a Filipino nurse could work in a hospital in Kuala Lumpur or Bangkok...