RP breaches 1-M mark in OFW annual deployment

By The Manila Times

Dec 03, 2006 5:54 am

WITH still a month to go before year-end, global deployment of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) already breached the 1-million mark, the first time in the country’s overseas employment history.

Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) records show that 1,011,148 land-based and sea-based OFWs were deployed from January 1 to November 21, 2006.

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