December
• Illegal recruiters ride the cyberspace
• 2006 OFW deployment exceeds 1 M mark
• POEA sees more OFWs deployed in 2007
• POEA Governing Board approves reforms on deployment of domestic helpers
• Illegal recruiters target semi-skilled job applicants
• Filipinos still the preferred choice in 2007
• POEA partners with LGUs against illegal recruitment
• Foreign-based placement agencies not allowed to recruit Filipino workers for Spain
• Statement of Administrator Baldoz on Korea EPS

November
• POEA expands services to returning OFWs
• Two recruitment agencies padlocked
• Victims arrests lady illegal recruiter in Pampanga
• POEA sets records straight on closed recruitment agency

October
• POEA warns teachers against Italy job scam
• Mandaluyong City joins POEA in fight against illegal recruitment

September
• Canada province seeks Filipino workers
• POEA campaign against illegal recruitment goes nationwide
• No recruitment of nurses and caregivers to Japan yet
• POEA not sending entertainers to Korea EPS
• Lifting order on Sentosa valid -- POEA

August
• Baldoz says albeit test leakage, Filipino nurses still the best
• Employers should pay for UAE work visa
• OFWs should use legal documents to work in Malaysia and the Netherlands
• Ex-prosecutor convicted, ex-mayor jailed for illegal recruitment
• POEA closes 19 travel agencies, bans 50 persons for illegal recruitment

July
• Gov’t offers alternative jobs and livelihood to OFWs repatriated from Lebanon
• Brion endorses reforms in the deployment of domestic helpers
• Gov't to neutralize airport 'escort' syndicates victimizing OFWs -DOLE
• Brion vows to intensify efforts against illegal recruitment
• General nurses removed from UK shortage occupation list
• POEA asks for LGU's support for illegal recruitment-free community initiative
• Korea may hire Filipino doctors in 2007
• 100,000 jobs in Spain not yet available
• Saudi to punish illegal foreign workers and their employers

June
• No lifting of Iraq deployment ban, work in Afghanistan restricted
• POEA not sending civilian fighters to Iraq, Afghanistan
• POEA denies sabotage on suspension orders against recruitment agencies
• POEA lifts suspension orders against recruitment agencies
• Recruitment agencies probed for illegal use of Saudi visa
• POEA partners with PESOs against illegal recruiters

May

• Recruiter for Sweden factory charged with illegal recruitment

• Foundation involved in illegal recruitment

• POEA asks court to reconsider decision dismissing case against American recruiter

• Owner of recruitment agency jailed

April

• POEA questions grant of bail to American recruiter

• UAE cracks down on illegal workers

March

• Cyprus clubs make Filipino entertainers prostitutes

• CIDG-POEA AIR team scores anew on fight vs illegal recruiters

• Victims arrest, let go illegal recruiter

February

• Maids in Malaysia get salary through banks

• Judge orders arrest, frees illegal recruiter

• 10 Filipino victims of illegal recruitment repatriated from Hong Kong

January
• 1,971 pass second Korean language test
• POEA awards P45 M  to OFW claimants
• Government honors outstanding private recruitment and manning agencies
• OFW contacts processed by POEA in 2005 hit 1 million mark

• Slow deployment of OFWs blamed on lack of international flights

• POEA expands online systems

• 250 OFWs leave weekly for EPS-Korea

• 67 recruitment agencies lost license

• Filipino professional and technical specialists boost OFW remittances

• Bright prospects ahead for overseas employment for 2006

• Baldoz extols OFWs for remittances