Many overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) – who had gone abroad in search of greener pastures – are coming home, as increasing numbers of them are losing their jobs in their host countries because of the global financial crisis. But at home, they are confronted by the fact that retrenchments are also taking place left and right as even the Philippines reels from the effects of the economic meltdown.

BY FLON FAURILLO
(Bulatlat.com)