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Pag-iwas sa scam, tinalakay sa fin-lit training ng Card HK

Posted on 26 June 2019 No comments

Ni George Manalansan
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Ang batch 56 ng Card HK Foundation at mga OFW trainors (naka green)

May dagdag-kaalaman na nakuha ang 63 migranteng manggagawa na sumali sa pinakahuling financial literacy workshop na isinagawa ng Card Hong Kong Foundation noong ika-23 ng Hunyo sa Bayanihan Centre sa Kennedy Town.

Ang isa sa mga aral na nakuha ng mga kasapi sa batch 56 ay kung paano sila makaiwas sa scam, isa sa pinakamainit na usapin sa Hong Kong ngayon dahil sa pagpapasara ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte sa Kapa Community Ministry nitong nagdaang linggo.

Tinanggalan ng lisensiya ng Securities and Exchange Commission ang Kapa dahil sa pagkamal nito ng pera mula sa pagtanggap ng investment sa publiko ng walang pahintulot. Marami sa mga nabiktima ay mga migrante sa Hong Kong.
Ayon kay Victoria Munar, lead trainor ng Card, may mga dapat tandaan bago maglagak ng pera bilang investment. Una, hanggang kailan mo balak itali ang iyong pera, pangalawa, may sapat ka bang kaalaman sa negosyo o kumpanya na paglalagakan mo ng pera; pangatlo, gaano kalaki ang tsansa na mawawala ang iyong ipinasok na halaga, at panghuli, saan mo gagamitin ang inaasam mong tubo?

Kung maglalagak ng pera sa isang kumpanya na nasa Pilipinas, alamin daw kung rehistrado ito sa mga kaukulang ahensya sa Pilipinas, katulad ng SEC at DTI (Department of Trade and Industry). Pag-aralan ding maigi kung saan nito ginagamit ang perang kinukuha sa mga investor para may maibalik na tubo sa mga naglagak ng salapi sa kanila.

Ang isa pang mainit na paksa ay ang pangungutang. Napapanahon din ang usapin dahil sa nasamsam ng pulis na 1,400 pasaporte ng mga Pilipina mula sa isang ilegal na pautangan sa Sheung Wan noong ika-5 ng Hunyo.
Ayon kay Munar, hindi naman ang lahat ng utang ay hindi maganda. Ang tinatawag na “good debts” ay yung gagamitin mo ang utang sa negosyo o sa pagbili ng ari-arian na magdadagdag sa iyong halaga o kayamanan. Yung “bad debts” naman ay yung makakabawas ng iyong kayamanan dahil ginamit sa pagbili ng mga bagay na walang halaga o kuwenta.

Ipinaliwanag din ni Munar ang ibig sabihin ng “tough love” o iyong pagsasabi ng “hindi” sa mga mahal sa buhay na humihiling na bilhan ng mga bagay na di naman kailangan o mahalaga. Kadalasan, ang mga ganitong hiling ang nagtutulak sa isang migrante na mangutang.

Payo niya, kung nag drama ang iyong pamilya para makuha ang kanilang gusto e gantihan mo din ng drama, katulad ng pagsasabi kung gaano kahirap magtrabaho sa Hong Kong,
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Social Welfare Attache Beth Dy

Naging bonus sa seminar ang pagdating ng social welfare attaché ng Pilipinas na si Beth Dy, na nagpaliwanag tungkol sa “stress” na nararanasan ng marami sa mahigit 210,000 na migranteng Pilipino na nasa Hong Kong ngayon, na 95% ay mga babae.
Kanyang hinimok ang mga nasa ganitong sitwasyon na maging mahinahon at ikonekta sa puso ang nararamdaman.  “Huwag itodo sa puso, ihiwalay ng kaunti at ilagay sa utak,” ang sabi niya, para hindi lumala ang nararamdaman.

Inanyayahan niya ang mga nakakaranas ng ganitong pagsubok na puntahan siya sa kanyang opisina sa Konsulado para sila matulungan. Maaari ding tumawag sa kanyang direct line, 2823 8537, Lunes hanggang Huwebes.

Dagdag payo niya, huwag na huwag pabayaan o pinsalain ang sarili, gaya ng hindi na kakain, o ang pinakamalala ay magtangkang magpakamatay.

“Punta kayo sa (akin), pag-usapan natin yan. Matutulungan namin kayo masolusyunan at  mapagaan ang problema…Hindi ako superwoman para masolusyunan lahat pero makakatulong tayo" aniya.

Umapela din siya sa mga ilegal ang katayuan sa Hong Kong na pumunta sa kanyang opisina para matulungan sila na sumuko kapag handa na sila. Hinimok din niya ang iba na may kakilala na ganito ang sitwasyon na gabayan sila sa paghingi sa kanya ng tulong.

Sulit na sulit ang maghapon na ginugol ng mga sumali sa seminar dahil sa dami ng mga kaalaman na naibahagi sa kanila, hindi lang ng mga trainor ng Card, kundi pati na ang mga bisita sa araw na iyon.
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Ang The SUN editor Daisy CL Mandap habang nagsasalita

Kabilang sa mga nagpaunlak ng imbita si Daisy CL Mandap, editor ng The SUN na isang abugada, na tumulong ipaliwanag ang mga napapanahong usapin tungkol sa pangungutang, pag invest ng pera, at tamang pagbibigay ng tulong sa mga kapamilya sa Pilipinas.

Dumating din ang Card board member na si Leo A. Deocadiz, na publisher din ng The SUN.

Kabilang sa mga nagbigay ng pagsasanay ang iba pang trainor ng Card na sina Rowena Rosales na tinalakay ang tamang paggastos mula sa perang pinaghirapan, si Emma Bautista na nagpaliwanag tungkol sa utang, at si Cecille Eduarte, sa investment.

Kitang kita naman ang kasiyahan ng ilang dumalo katulad ni Amy Limusnero  ng Davao. Ang pinaka tumatak sa kanya ay kung paano mag budget at kontrolin ang perang pinapadala sa pamilya para na rin sa kinabukasan nilang lahat.

Ang isa pa nyang natutunan ay ang huwag magluho, gaya ng ilan na kahit meron nang smartphone ay maghahangad pang gayahin ang mga kaibigan na gamit ang mas bagong modelo. “Kaya ako, magtitipid na ako,” ang sabi niya.

Ayon naman kay Juliet Bustillos ng Abra, "Enjoy ako sa mga paksa, lalo na yung punto na dapat kong alisin, ang pagiging palautang. Dapat i-manage na lang ang perang nandyan at planuhin mabuti ang paggastos,” aniya.

Para naman kay Virgie Ardel ng Isabela, natutunan niya na mali ang sobrang pagbibigay sa pamilya dahil nalilimutan ang sariling plano. “Kung maaga akong nakadalo sa ganitong fin-lit, mas mainam,” sabi niya.

Kitang kita sa mga mukha ng dumalo ang kasiyahan sa pagtatapos ng maghapong seminar. Sa kanilang pagtatapos ay nakalamang sila ng isang hakbang sa mga hindi pa nakadalo dahil maaari na silang sumali sa susunod na libreng seminar ng Card, ang Entrepreneurship and Business Planning na gaganapin sa ika-7 ng Hulyo.

Para sa mga gustong makibahagi sa mga susunod pang pagsasanay, mangyari lamang na  bisitahin ang Facebook page ng Card Hong Kong Foundation.
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HK revokes employment agency's license

Posted on 25 June 2019 No comments
The building where Employment Agencies Administration is located. Photo: Google

The Labour Department has revoked the license of an employment agency it found to have been "getting involved in the financial affairs of foreign domestic helpers (FDHs)" and withholding their passports.

In a statement, LD identified the agency as Perfect World Employment Services Co located in Tai Po.

It said the company failed to meet the requirements set out in the Code  of Practice for Employment Agencies.

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Perfect World is the second employment agency to have had its license revoked so far this year.  Last year, there were eight cases of revocation or refusal of renewal of EA licences.

Last May 28, the LD announced it has revoked the license of Fardiansyah International Limited, located in Yau Ma Tei, for failure "to meet the standards set out in the Code in various aspects."

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These included "having its management fail to closely supervise their staff in relation to the provision of job-placement services, failing to draw up service agreements with foreign domestic helpers (FDHs), failing to send a copy of the completed standard employment contract (SEC) to FDHs as soon as practicable, failing to return the passport directly to the job seeker without delay upon obtaining the employment or relevant visa for the job seeker concerned, and failing to provide FDHs with a copy of the sample SEC in their mother language."

A spokesman for the Labour Department (LD) reminded operators of employment agencies (EAs) to conduct their business in compliance with the law and the requirements of the Code  at all times.
 
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Under  the Employment Ordinance (EO), the Commissioner for Labour may revoke the licence of an agency if he is satisfied that the licensee concerned has not complied with the Code.

"The Code sets out the salient legal requirements that EA operators must observe in operating their business, as well as the minimum standards which the Commissioner expects from EAs.

"The Employment (Amendment) Ordinance 2018, which came into effect on February 9, 2018, stipulates that the Commissioner may refuse to issue or renew a licence, or may revoke a licence, if he is satisfied on reasonable grounds that the licensee or the person intending to be the licensee of an EA, or a related person of or an individual employed by the licensee or the person intending to be the licensee has contravened any provision of Part XII of EO or any regulation made under section 62 of EO, such as overcharging job seekers or unlicensed operation, or has not complied with the Code issued under section 62A(1) of EO," the spokesman added.

For inquiries about matters related to EAs or complaints about their malpractices, please call the Employment Agencies Administration of the LD at 2115 3667, or visit its office at Unit 906, 9/F, One Mong Kok Road Commercial Centre, 1 Mong Kok Road, Kowloon.
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Filipina, Nepali jointly charged with drug trafficking

Posted on 24 June 2019 No comments

By Vir B. Lumicao

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Kowloon City Court building

A Filipino female and a Nepali male appeared in Kowloon City Court today, Jun 24, to face two counts of trafficking in dangerous drugs. The quantity and value of the drugs involved were not mentioned.

The two, Ivy Joy Bolante and MD Golam Kibrea, were both remanded in custody by Magistrate Woo Huey-fang who also told them to return on Aug 6 for the transfer of their case to the District Court.
The visa status of the two accused, or details of the case against them, were not disclosed.

Bolante’s counsel offered to increase the previously offered bail of $10,000 to $12,000, but Woo declined at the request of the prosecution.

No bail application was made on Kibrea’s behalf.
The prosecution said the remand case had been adjourned previously for DNA and fingerprint analyses of the two defendants.

But no fingerprints from either suspect were reportedly found on the packaging of the drugs they had been accused of trafficking.
Both defendants also have no criminal records.

The prosecution asked for an adjournment to await the results of the DNA test on the two suspects.
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8 months jail for Pinay used by FB boyfriend to launder $700k

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A Filipina helper who opened two bank accounts that were used by her online boyfriend to funnel nearly $700,000 of illegally earned cash was sentenced today, Jun 24, to eight months in jail after pleading guilty to two counts of money laundering.

Jeannette V. Rodriguez, a 48-year-old mother of four, could not stop crying as the summary of the case against her was read in Eastern court before Magistrate Peter Law.

Magistrate said Rodriguez had no criminal intent but was a victim of an an internet romance that turned into a crime 
Rodriguez was charged with two counts of “dealing with property known or believed to be proceeds of indictable offence,” arising from cash transactions made using a Hang Seng Bank account she opened in 2017 and a Bank of China account opened last year.
The accounts had been used by a certain Mr Brown, who Rodriguez met on Facebook, as depository for money earned through illicit means. These included romance scams he perpetrated on four other women, whose nationalities were not disclosed, also through Facebook.

Rodriguez opened the first savings account with Hang Seng Bank on Apr 18, 2017 supposedly for the payment of her salary as a domestic worker.

But between Apr 27, 2017 and Jun 15, 2018, several cash deposits totaling $551,700.34 were made into the account.

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The rest of the money was deposited into the Bank of China account Rodriguez opened on Mar 16, 2018 and was in operation for only just over a month, or until Apr 26 that same year.

Between February and April 2018, the four women in Hong Kong reported they had fallen prey to online romance scams in which the culprit lured them into remitting a total of $140,300 and $15,900, respectively, into Rodriguez’s Hang Seng and BOC accounts.

It was not clear where the rest of the money deposited into her two accounts had come from.
All the money was withdrawn within days of being credited to the accounts.

Police arrested Rodriguez on Aug 6, 2018 at her home and investigated for six days regarding her Hang Seng account. She admitted to investigators that she owned and controlled the account but had done transactions on instructions of “Mr Brown”.

The defendant told police she had not met Mr Brown personally but that he had allowed her to keep $12,000 from a cash transfer of $100,000 to her account, on condition that she remitted the remaining $88,000 to an account in Taiwan.

A police search of her address yielded a remittance receipt dated Feb 28, 2018, for $88,000 that she sent to an account in Taiwan First Bank.

Rodriguez was questioned in October last year on other transactions that were found in her Hang Seng account but she refused to answer.

On Nov 16 last year, Rodriguez was arrested again for her BOC account transactions. She admitted owning that account which she said she opened because Hang Seng had suspended her other account. She refused to answer questions.

A total of $591,785.34 passed through the Hang Seng account over 14 months, between Apr 27, 2017 and Jun 15, 2018. The total amount involved in the first charge was $551,700.34, and $125,800.70 in the second charge.

Rodriguez was charged on Jan 15 this year and has been detained since then.

In mitigation, the defense lawyer said Rodriguez came to Hong Kong as a helper in 2012. Separated from her spouse, she was the breadwinner for her two daughters and two sons.

The lawyer said Rodriguez fell for Mr Brown although they had not met personally and followed his instructions because of the money that she received from the transactions which she sent to her children for their support.

“Money laundering is a serious offense, especially because of its international element,” Magistrate Law said.

But he noted that the defendant had no criminal intent but was merely drawn into an internet romance that turned into a crime.
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