Buhay saudi.......

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Eto maulan ang Pasko dito kahit summer time. Maganda rin ang klima tol, 21degC.. Sabi ng mga locals, December daw ang supposed hottest month ng summer pero hindi naman hot eh.. Mas maraming "hot" sa mga bars at casinos sa gabi.. :jeanie:

Kumusta naman klima diyan tol? I know malamig ngayon sa Saudi diba? Been to Jeddah and Dammam. Curious lang ako 'tol.. Ano yung "Linis tubo" at every friday daw yun..?

sarap naman jan bro....medyo malamig na din, minsan nasa 14,15,16 sa umaga...

linis tubo? ang alam kong linis tubo e irelease ang nakakasakit ng puson nating mga lalaki....ewan ko sa iba sa paanong paraan....

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Info: walang ilog sa bansang saudi...

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Pinay iniwan ang anak para 'di madeport sa Saudi
Ni Ellen Fernando (Pilipino Star Ngayon) Updated December 27, 2010 12:00 AM Comments (5)

MANILA, Philippines - Mas pinili ng isang Pinay na iwan ang kanyang anak at tumakas sa Bahay Kalinga sa Riyadh, Saudi Arabia upang hindi siya umano mapasama sa deportasyon pabalik sa Pilipinas.
Kinumpirma ni Labor Attache Albert Valen­ciano na nasa pangangalaga ngayon ng Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLO) sa Saudi ang bata na hindi binanggit ang gulang.
Nais umano ng nasabing OFW na manatili pa sa Saudi sa kabila ng naranasang pagmamaltrato ng kanyang naging amo.
Sa report na tinanggap ng Migrante-Middle East, ang Pinay na umano’y Filipino-Muslim ay nakakalabas ng Bahay Kalinga upang magtrabaho bilang kasambahay sa umaga at pagsapit ng gabi ay saka umuuwi sa Bahay Kalinga. Hindi na umano bumalik ang ginang at ang pagi­ging maluwag sa kanya ng POLO ang ginamit nito sa planong pagtakas at pag-iwan naman sa kanyang anak.

Komento nyo dito?

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bagong taon nasa trabaho...

sa mga nagbabalak mag-Saudi, kaya nyo kaya labanan ang homesick?

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Job prospects abroad remain bright - DOLE
By Mayen Jaymalin (The Philippine Star) Updated January 01, 2011 12:00 AM Comments (24)

MANILA, Philippines - The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) reported yesterday that employment prospects abroad remained bright for construction workers and other highly skilled Filipino workers in the coming year.
Labor Undersecretary Danny Cruz said at least 10,000 jobs await Filipino construction and other skilled workers in Guam in the next five years with the planned construction of new US military facilities there.
“The construction of huge US military facilities is expected to open job opportunities for Filipinos in the third quarter of this year, but the hiring of workers may start earlier because there are other buildings to be constructed aside from the military facilities,” Cruz disclosed.
Cruz noted that the construction of military facilities suffered a minor setback due to financial difficulties, but he said the project would definitely start this year.
Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) chief Jennifer Manalili also reported that Saudi Arabia and other Middle East countries are also expected to hire more Filipino construction and other workers this year.
“There are a lot of job opportunities for Filipino workers in the Middle East because of the construction boom which is expected to continue until 2020,” Manalili pointed out.
Manalili said new hospitals are also set to open in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE) and thus expected to generate more employment for Filipino health workers in 2011.
Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz also reported that employers from Malta have expressed their desire to hire more Filipino caregivers.

Citing reports from the Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLO), Baldoz said many overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) now working in Malta are getting high salaries.
“Malta’s minimum wage is 620 euro ($820) and Filipino workers there receive not less than this minimum wage amount. Besides, Filipino workers in Malta are allowed to do part-time jobs after eight hours of regular work,” Baldoz said.
Baldoz, however, warned jobseekers desiring to work abroad to check their prospective employers, as well as their recruitment agencies, with the POEA to ensure that there are valid job orders and that they would undergo legal application and deployment processes.
John Leonard Monterona, Migrante-Middle East regional coordinator, said new employment policies in the UAE and other countries in the Middle East could slow down hiring of OFWs in 2011.
Monterona said that the UAE government is implementing 20 percent job reservation for its nationals as part of its labor market reforms.
“This week, the UAE labor ministry has been cited in various local news reports that it will require all companies to have at least one-fifth of their staff as Emirate citizens,” Monterona disclosed.
He added that the UAE labor ministry is also expected to implement a quota system in hiring expatriate workers in line with its aim boosting employment of its citizens over foreign workers.
Monterona said UAE has been hard hit by the global crisis, thus it is opting to enforce labor market reforms that would lessen the impact on its citizens.
He said that Saudi Arabia is also implementing a “Saudization” program requiring private companies to hire its citizens up to about five percent of total staff.
“If Saudi Arabia and the UAE have been in the 1st and 2nd place, respectively, of the top ten destinations of OFWs from 2003 to 2009, since these countries are now introducing labor market reforms geared towards more restrictions, then we are seeing a dim prospect of OFW deployment by 2011,” Monterona said.

http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx...bCategoryId=63

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Ok lang yan kahit na kapag tag-init ay para kang tinutusta sa init....

Basta wag lang kasama sa bahay...kawawa lang sila...


"Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) chief Jennifer Manalili also reported that Saudi Arabia and other Middle East countries are also expected to hire more Filipino construction and other workers this year."

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Migrante: Detained OFW in Riyadh freed, sent home
By Dennis Carcamo (philstar.com) Updated January 04, 2011 08:35 AM Comments (0)


MANILA, Philippines – An overseas Filipino worker (OFW) jailed in Saudi Arabia after airport authorities caught 150 kilos of copper in his baggage was released from detention and deported back to the country, a migrant workers' rights group bared.
Quoting the OFW's brother, Migrante-Middle East said the 30-year-old OFW from Haen, Nueva Ecija, was freed from Azizia jail in Riyadh last Jan.1 and escorted by police to the airport on the same day.
John Monterona, the group's regional coordinator said the OFW's employer did not press charges against his former employee and instead "forgave" the misdemeanor.
The OFW was arrested on Dec. 11 after airport authorities discovered 150 kilos of copper in his baggage.
After completing his two-year contract, the OFW resigned from a Riyadh-based molding shop as furnace operator and was about to leave for Manila when apprehended, Monterona said.
“Let us take extra care and must be prudent and conscious enough on our actions as we are treated as third class foreigners in Arab states. It is a must to consistently obey the customs, laws, and prohibitions imposed by the host government,” he said.

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Migrante: Detained OFW in Riyadh freed, sent home
By Dennis Carcamo (philstar.com) Updated January 04, 2011 08:35 AM Comments (0)


MANILA, Philippines – An overseas Filipino worker (OFW) jailed in Saudi Arabia after airport authorities caught 150 kilos of copper in his baggage was released from detention and deported back to the country, a migrant workers' rights group bared.
Quoting the OFW's brother, Migrante-Middle East said the 30-year-old OFW from Haen, Nueva Ecija, was freed from Azizia jail in Riyadh last Jan.1 and escorted by police to the airport on the same day.
John Monterona, the group's regional coordinator said the OFW's employer did not press charges against his former employee and instead "forgave" the misdemeanor.
The OFW was arrested on Dec. 11 after airport authorities discovered 150 kilos of copper in his baggage.
After completing his two-year contract, the OFW resigned from a Riyadh-based molding shop as furnace operator and was about to leave for Manila when apprehended, Monterona said.
“Let us take extra care and must be prudent and conscious enough on our actions as we are treated as third class foreigners in Arab states. It is a must to consistently obey the customs, laws, and prohibitions imposed by the host government,” he said.

150kls? Sobra bigat naman nun a, ang pagkakaalam ko max 35 kls lang sa Airline ang allowable.

Kakahiya naman si Kabayan, mabuti na lang naawa pa yung employer.

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Editorial: Saudization drive

Call for replacement of expats with Saudis in retail sector is prompted out of necessity
In most countries, a call from a prominent economist to expel foreign workers and replace them with nationals would be met with accusations of racism. But that accusation cannot be leveled at Saudi economist Abdul Rahman Al-Homaid. His call last week to replace foreigners in the retail sector with Saudis is prompted not by fantasies of national purity but by necessity.
As we have pointed out before in these columns, there is a ticking time bomb in Saudi Arabia. It is called unemployment and it threatens to explode with potentially devastating results unless defused. Because of the population growth rate — the highest in the world — every year for the next 20 years an extra 400,000 jobs will be needed to meet the demand from young Saudis coming onto the labor market. That is just the men! The consequences of them not finding work could be serious — economically, politically and socially.
For that simple reason, there are no taboos. There cannot be the same sentiments as elsewhere. Saudi Arabia has to put its own interests first. It is not racist to call for foreigners to be replaced by nationals, which would be the case in France or Germany or the US, because there is not the overriding imperative there of finding jobs for a burgeoning population. They actually need foreigners to fill jobs.
Al-Homaid’s suggestion would be a major leap in Saudization. But so far, the simple truth is that Saudization has not worked well. Indeed, it has hardly worked at all. The figures prove it. Last year’s census showed not only a major increase in the country’ population. It showed that the expatriate population had grown accordingly. There are now 8.5 million expatriates in the Kingdom, the highest number ever. Plans to reduce their number by 1.2 percent a year have clearly failed.
There are a number of reasons. There are the Saudi employers who continue to use foreigners because they are cheaper or because they think them more productive. Then there are the more colorful reasons — such as, in the Saudization of gold shops, foreigners passing themselves off as Saudis by dressing up in thobes and shamaghs.
The Saudization of the entire retail sector has its attractions given the mountain to climb. It would create tens of thousands of jobs. Moreover, young Saudis can already be seen working — and working hard — in supermarkets; the notion that they look down on such work is clearly a myth. But it could not happen in one fell swoop. The sudden and complete Saudization of the retail sector would create chaos. It would have to happen in stages, albeit rapid stages. And it would have to be rigorously and consistently enforced, which present Saudization rules are not.
The biggest drawback, however, remains the salary differentials. While foreigners continue to be paid less, employers will continue to use them. Were the government, in tandem with restrictions on numbers of expatriates employed in the Kingdom, to ban pay differentials between foreigners and Saudis doing the same job and police that change, it would significantly expand the job market for Saudis. The present policy of actually encouraging employers to pay Saudis more in fact discriminates against them and makes the government’s aims all the more difficult to achieve.


Editorial

Jan 3, 2011 23:08



http://arabnews.com/opinion/editorial/article228877.ece

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150kls? Sobra bigat naman nun a, ang pagkakaalam ko max 35 kls lang sa Airline ang allowable.

Kakahiya naman si Kabayan, mabuti na lang naawa pa yung employer.

akala siguro ni kabayan makakalusot siya....

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Newcomers may drive sans license

By MD AL-SULAMI | ARAB NEWS
Published: Jan 3, 2011 23:32 Updated: Jan 3, 2011 23:32
JEDDAH: Authorities have decided to allow newly arrived foreigners with valid licenses from their home countries to drive in the Kingdom for up to three months before being required to obtain a Saudi driving license.
“Within the first three months the driver needs to go to a driving school and pass the driving test to obtain a Saudi driving license,” said a source in the Traffic Department.
Employers should inform their insurers if a foreign worker will be driving a company vehicle using his foreign license.
Sponsors lose considerable working hours because the drivers they import cannot work until they get a Saudi license.

Good news sa mga baguhan patungo ng Saudi....

http://arabnews.com/saudiarabia/article228945.ece

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isang way ng pang-gogoyo sa mga manggagawa dito.....


Novel way of misusing labor law

By SIRAJ WAHAB | ARAB NEWS
Published: Dec 27, 2010 23:58 Updated: Dec 27, 2010 23:58
DAMMAM: Legal experts will be watching closely a case in Jubail in which a expatriate worker leaving the Kingdom for good discovered his former employer had skirted a new Saudi labor law by giving him an exit/re-entry visa instead of a final exit visa.
The difference may, to the untrained eye, seem inconsequential. However, according to the new Saudi law, an exit/re-entry visa instead of the required final exit visa will block an expatriate worker from returning to the Kingdom on a new employment visa.
Under the revised law, the no-objection certificate previously required of companies for departing employees was eliminated, if they had a proper final exit visa on their passports. By cleverly substituting an exit/re-entry visa for the final exit, companies make it appear as if the employee has not left in good standing. This can preclude the worker from returning to the Kingdom for years in some cases. The final exit visa on one’s passport is seen by Saudi missions abroad as proof that the person has left the company with a clean slate.
Some hapless employees only discover this as their passports are often delivered to them at the airport as they depart; some might not even notice the misuse until reaching their home countries.
The reason this deceit has come to light is because a 33-year-old Indian pipe technician who had been with the same company for 13 years discovered the wrong visa at the airport’s immigration counter and went back to his former employers to correct the “mistake” and then return to India with his wife and two children. It was only after speaking to his employer that he learned this was not a mistake but an underhanded way to keep him from coming back to the Kingdom for future employment.
“I never had any complaints against the company,” said the disgruntled pipe technician who has been stranded since October in Jubail with his family, unable to work and unable to leave. “When I discovered that my company had not given me the mandatory final exit and had only stamped an exit/re-entry visa, I thought it must have been an error on our administration’s part, so me and my wife and two children came back from the airport. Now, we don't have a home to stay in because we had cleared everything; after all we were going for good after settling all our accounts. We stayed at a friend’s place, and on Oct. 9, the day after we were supposed to travel home, I went to our office and explained the error. One manager sent me to another, and soon I realized it was not an error but a deliberate act of harassment.”
One of the company managers told him they did not want him to come back to the Kingdom, and that was why they substituted the final exit visa with an exit/re-entry stamp.
“I protested. I told them it is my right to have a final exit on my passport,” said the pipe technician. 'If you have any case against me then tell me. I would like to clear it,’ I told them. Of course there was no case. They cleared my end of service benefits. Everything was settled amicably. There was no acrimony. They would not listen to me and instead asked me to sign a paper that said I would not come back to the Kingdom for one year. They said I would get a final exit only after I signed that paper. I refused.”
An official at the Labor Office in Jubail ruled in the employee’s favor and directed the company to get the proper visa. The company appealed to the higher authorities, which again ruled in the technician’s favor and directed the company to cancel all previous visas, stamp the final exit, and issue new air tickets for him and his family, so they would be able to travel within a week. The company refused, prompting the higher court to issue an order to the police to settle the matter. The company told the police that they have approached another office and that is where the matter is currently standing.
For the technician and his family, every day presents new challenges. He has no legal documentation; he cannot travel anywhere else. His children cannot go to school, and he cannot send them back because he cannot get the final exit visa from the Passport Office because he does not have an iqama.
He said he would like to return to the Kingdom and continue working in his trade — but probably for a more reputable company. “What's wrong with that? If I have a good offer, then I will surely take it,” the stranded technician said. “This is legal.”
However, legal experts say a company can always approach the labor court to send its previous employee back, claiming that the person learned company secrets during the time of his employment.

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Filipinos launch drive to draw attention to unresolved cases

By RODOLFO ESTIMO JR. | ARAB NEWS
Published: Jan 5, 2011 22:58 Updated: Jan 5, 2011 22:58
RIYADH: Various chapters of Migrante International and two other groups have launched a campaign to seek justice for overseas Filipino victims whose cases have not yet been solved.
“Called ‘Justice for Romilyn Eroy-Ibanez! Justice for All Victims,’ the campaign aims to bring to the attention of the concerned authorities pending cases of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) that need to be acted upon,” said John Leonard Monterona, Migrante Middle East’s coordinator.
Romilyn Eroy-Ibanez was found unconscious in the kitchen of her sponsor's house in Alkhobar in September 2010 with acid burns and stab wounds. She was taken to King Fahd Hospital by the Red Crescent where she died a few hours later.
“More than four months have passed after her gruesome death was reported but no charges have been filed because no police report has been received by the Philippine Overseas Labor Office (POLO) in the Eastern Province or the Philippine Embassy in Riyadh,” Monterona said.
Other OFWs whose cases remain unsolved include that of Rowena Peremne Arceo, 33, who died mysteriously in Alkhobar on Oct. 22, 2008; Joy Cabansi Sarto, 28, who mysteriously died on Sept. 22, 2009; Lorena (not her real name), 33, who was allegedly raped in Dammam; Eugenia Baja, 24, who was reported to have committed suicide but her body bore stab wounds and bruises; Clara (not her real name), who was gang-raped at her employer's house in February 2007; Analyn de Pena, 33, who was reported to have committed suicide but her family believes that foul play was involved; Marilou Macam Ating, 37, who was reported to have fallen from the fourth floor of her employer's residence but her family believes that foul play was also involved.
The list of participants in the campaign include Migrante chapters in Alkhobar, Riyadh, Jeddah, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Libya and Kuwait, the ABC Group in Riyadh and the Saudi chapter of the Christian-Muslim Alliance for Justice and Peace in the Philippines.

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BAHA sa Jeddah.

http://arabnews.com/saudiarabia/article226797.ece

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Pinay nurse patay sa chopper crash
Ni Mer Layson (Pilipino Star Ngayon) Updated January 09, 2011 12:00 AM Comments (0)

MANILA, Philippines - Isang Pinay nurse ang iniulat na kabilang umano sa apat na crew members na nasawi sa isang helicopter crash na naganap sa southern Riyadh sa Saudi Arabia nitong Biyernes.
Batay sa natanggap na report ng Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), nakilala lamang ang Pinay sa pangalang Rosella, habang ang iba pang nasawi ay nakilalang sina pilot Capt. Khaled Al-Dakhil at First Lt. Mandeel Al-Subaihi, mga Saudis; at Egyptian doctor na si Amjad Al-Iraqi.
Sinasabing sakay ng isang medical helicopter ng Saudi Armed Forces ang mga biktima patungo sa Hawtah Bani Tamim, 240 kilometro mula sa capital, upang sunduin ang isang pasyente nang mag-crash ito.
Hindi pa naman matukoy ang sanhi ng aksidente. Nabatid na sa Saudi, gumagamit ng medical choppers para ilipat ng pagamutan ang isang pasyente.

Well compensated si kabayan sa Saudi Government....

Sa RP government kaya?

RIP kabayan, isa kang bayani sa paningin ng mga Saudi at ng mga kapwa mo Filipino.

[_Cathy_]

Mahal din ba yung patchi chocolate sa Saudi? I read online that in can be bought in Saudi. Mahal kasi dito.

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Mahal din ba yung patchi chocolate sa Saudi? I read online that in can be bought in Saudi. Mahal kasi dito.

can afford naman sis..per KG and bilihan nyan dito...

nasa 2kpetot ang per KG nya....(approximate)....

[_Cathy_]

Wow! that's so cheap compared to Manila!

P4.85/g x 1000 = P4,850 per KG

Hay, parang yung Truffles de France more or less double the price compared to the US.

[desert fox]

Wow! that's so cheap compared to Manila!

P4.85/g x 1000 = P4,850 per KG

Hay, parang yung Truffles de France more or less double the price compared to the US.

galing lang kasi ng Lebanon yan mas malapit dito...maraming kumpetensya dito yan Patchi....

me mga mas mura ibang brand(galing din ng Lebanon) halos kasinglasa din ng Patchi...

sarap nga yan Patchi.....

[_Cathy_]

bro desert_fox I was able to buy Patchi today. I only got 4 bite size pieces because it was so expensive. The store looked more like it was selling jewelry not chocolates. he he.

Galaxy na lang ang inaasam ko!!! lol.