Welcome to filipinotimes.ae, one-stop destination for Filipino-focused news, views and information, catering to the expat Filipino, as well as providing a window into the life of the Overseas Filipino Worker to his/her friends and family back home. You can take a Filipino out of the Philippines, but you can’t take the Philippines out of a Filipino. This is one community with an extremely strong bond with its roots, and wherever a Filipino might be, s/he will always crave for – and care for – news about the Philippines, to be reassured about the well-being of their loved ones back home, and to support their country in whichever way they can. The Filipino Times provides the Filipino community with the most important and interesting news, entertainment, and business coverage from the Philippines, around the UAE, and across the Gulf region. More than just a source of information, we aim to become a hub that unites the Filipino community and bridges them with the many different opportunities that they could take advantage of in the country, as well as provide helplines and authoritative Filipino-centric content that is sorely lacking. The portal provides focused news and informative articles of interest to the community, welcoming newcomers to the region and providing a platform for overseas Filipinos to share their joys and sorrows, their success and failure, and their achievements and shortcomings. It offers a forum to the community to extend a helping hand to those in need of assistance, or give a shout-out to their compatriots when in distress.