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[Title] => POEA warns artists vs job offers in Turkey
[Summary] => The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) is warning aspiring female overseas performing artists (OPAs) against accepting employment offers in Turkey.
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[Title] => Pinoy entertainers train their sights on South Korea
[Summary] => Filipino entertainers displaced by stricter immigration rules in Japan are now setting their sights on South Korea.
South Korea is slowly becoming an alternative destination for overseas performing artists (OPAs) with first-class karaoke bars mushrooming there, local recruitment agencies reported yesterday.
Cristina Edquiban, president of Peak Manpower Resources, said South Korea is now hiring more and more Filipinos artists, including those displaced by the new regulations in Japan.
[DatePublished] => 2006-02-06 00:00:00
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[Title] => DOLE downplays drop in Japan’s hiring of entertainers
[Summary] => The slump in the hiring of Filipino entertainers in Japan is just temporary with the Philippines soon to recapture the market, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) maintained yesterday.
"The market is there and we are not going to lose it," Undersecretary for Employment Danilo Cruz said in reaction to latest official figures showing a 38-percent drop in the deployment of overseas performing artists (OPAs) in Japan in recent months.
[DatePublished] => 2005-08-31 00:00:00
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[Title] => 15,000 entertainers lose jobs in Japan
[Summary] => At least 15,000 Filipino entertainers have lost job opportunities in Japan and figures are expected to increase in the coming months as the Philippines continues to bear the brunt of Tokyo’s new hiring policy.
Data from the Philippine Overseas Employment Agency (POEA) showed a dramatic 38.46 percent drop in the deployment of overseas performing artists (OPAs) for the past seven months of the year due to Japan’s stricter visa requirements in employing foreign performers.
[DatePublished] => 2005-08-30 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Mayen Jaymalin
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[Title] => RP eases policy on Japanese promoters
[Summary] => The Philippine government has suspended regulations restricting Japanese promoters from hiring Filipino entertainers in an apparent bid to promote the deployment of overseas performing artists (OPAs).
Ambassador to Japan Domingo Siazon has reportedly ordered labor officials to suspend the verification and authentication processes of the work contracts of OPAs, a local recruitment agency revealed yesterday.
The Philippine Association of Recruitment Agencies Deploying Artists (PARADA) said Siazon supposedly gave the order upon the request of Tokyo’s foreign ministry.
[DatePublished] => 2005-04-28 00:00:00
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[Title] => Displaced ‘Japayukis’ to be given retraining
[Summary] => Overseas performing artists (OPAs) who will be displaced when Japan implements a stricter immigration policy on March 15 will get government’s help.
Presidential Spokesman Ignacio Bunye has assured that OPAs who are displaced by Japan’s new immigration policy will be provided with retraining programs by the government.
Bunye said the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and its attached agencies will allocate portions of their respective budgets to help subsidize the cost of retraining OPAs who will need it to return to Japan.
[DatePublished] => 2005-03-14 00:00:00
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[AuthorID] => 1805432
[AuthorName] => Paolo Romero
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[Title] => ‘Japayukis’ race to avoid new hiring policy’s impact
[Summary] => A group of overseas performing artists lauded the efforts of an administration lawmaker to find an acceptable solution to the looming job crisis facing OPAs as Japan’s new immigration laws take effect on March 15.
Lawyer Ramon Calubag of the Caucus for OPAs Welfare said his group is banking on the privilege speech of Rep. Marcelino Libanan calling for the creation of an Overseas Entertainment Industry Integrity Board that would help protect, secure and assist their members.
[DatePublished] => 2005-03-09 00:00:00
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[Title] => ‘Japayukis’ skeptical over new Japan hiring policy
[Summary] => Overseas performing artists (OPAs) believe the government is merely trying to appease the growing restiveness among them despite the recent pronouncement of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) that the Japanese government will not yet fully implement its new immigration policy by Jan. 4.
But according to the Philippine Overseas Entertainment Industry Foundation and the Federation of Entertainment Talents and Managers of the Philippines, Tokyo’s sincerity will be proven once working visas are issued to OPAs.
[DatePublished] => 2005-01-02 00:00:00
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[AuthorID] => 1546326
[AuthorName] => Nestor Etolle
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[Title] => Japanese firms ask Koizumi to lift new hiring restrictions
[Summary] => FUKUOKA CITY, Japan —A group of Japanese recruiters of foreign entertainers has asked the Tokyo government to revoke a new immigration law drastically reducing the number of Filipino overseas performing artists (OPA) allowed to work in Japan.
[DatePublished] => 2004-12-20 00:00:00
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[AuthorID] => 1804833
[AuthorName] => Marichu A. Villanueva
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[Title] => Pinoy artists abroad have happy stories too
[Summary] => Dorothy Jocson is a Tourism degree-holder from De Ocampo University. Jennifer Festejo is a BS Psychology graduate of the University of Sto. Tomas. Daisy Abungin is a high school graduate who was once employed as a factory worker.
They come from different backgrounds. What they have in common is artistic talent and a strong desire to make life better for themselves and their families doing something they love and are very good at – entertaining people through the arts of song, dance and music.
[DatePublished] => 2002-05-16 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Ed Santoalla
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