Previously, apart from Filipinos with English skills who could obtain news of home by reading the foreign-worker pages of the English-language China Post and Taiwan News, other Southeast Asians who wanted to read news in their mother languages had to rely on out-of-date imported periodicals.
平面媒體方面，過去，除了通曉英語的菲律賓籍移工、移民可以透過台灣的幾份英文報紙，包括「China Post」、「Taiwan News」的「外勞版」獲得切身資訊，其餘外勞與外配想閱讀母語資訊，只能透過母國進口的過期報紙和雜誌。