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....