By Ben Garcia - www.kuwaittimes.net
KUWAIT: Attention Ministry of Health. In September 2008, a Kuwaiti company hired about 30 Filipinos from Manila to work as cleaners, but ten of them (females) were disposed to some private clinics and hospitals and homes to work as assistant nurses.

By Lorna Siggins - www.irishtimes.com
Ireland’s Senior citizens are being cared for in large numbers by one of the most marginalised groups in the labour force, a study by NUI Galway’s Irish Centre for Social Gerontology has found.

By Joseph Hulandes Ubalde
Before the Philippines could start sending out Filipino health care workers in droves abroad, it should first begin populating its hospitals with nurses.

By Kimberly Jane Tan
Another batch composed of 30 Filipino caregivers will leave for Japan on Sunday under the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA), the Japanese Embassy in the Philippines has said.

By Howie Severino
In last week’s Asahi Shimbun, one of the leading newspapers in Japan, was a heart-breaking sign of this nation’s endangered future: News of a growing number of senior citizens killing their spouses.