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		<title>Remittances to rise in May as new workers find jobs abroad</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blogtopia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MANILA, Philippines &#8211; Remittances are expected to rise by two to three per cent in May this year after new overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) were deployed abroad, the Philippines’ central bank said. Although remittance growth may only be slower at single-digit levels this year, cash sent home by OFWs will not decline, central bank officials [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BSP notes growing investments by OFWs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MANILA &#8211; Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) have been known to favor saving portions of their earnings but lately, the central bank has noted more of them have also begun making investments. Every year, about $16 billion worth of foreign exchange is sent home by Filipinos working abroad and through the decades, the Bangko Sentral ng [...]]]></description>
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		<title>POEA: 100,000 jobs await OFWs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 04:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blogtopia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MANILA, Philippines &#8211; At least 100,000 more jobs in Guam, Saudi Arabia and Qatar await Filipino workers. The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) reported that the government is currently negotiating agreements for the hiring of more Filipino workers abroad. POEA chief Jennifer Manalili said the government is looking at 15,000 to 20,000 jobs for highly skilled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moody&#8217;s Investors Service on RP credit rating</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 03:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blogtopia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MANILA, Philippines &#8211; The Philippines’ credit-worthiness may improve as long as it sustains its trade and financial surplus and minimize the global recession’s “adverse effects&#34; on its finances, a ratings agency said. The country’s financial system “has avoided the types of stress evident in many other systems regionally and globally,&#34; said Moody’s Investors Service, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DFA: Kin of Pinay killed in US shooting informed of tragedy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 06:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cebu-based relatives of a Filipino woman killed in a shooting incident in the United States have been informed of the tragedy, the Department of Foreign Affairs said Monday. DFA spokesman Eduardo Malaya said the relatives of Dolores Carbonilas Yigal are now likely communicating with her US-based husband. &#34;Na-inform na ang pamilya at asawa doon sa [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#039;The War at Home&#039; by Chip Tsao</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article was written by a chinese columnist Chip Tsao who called the Philippines a “nation of servants.”, This has enraged Filipinos all over the world for his racial slur. The Russians sank a Hong Kong freighter last month, killing the seven Chinese seamen onboard. We can live with that-—Lenin and Stalin were once the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HK Magazine removes Chip Tsao from website</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blogtopia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The controversial article of Chinese writer Chip Tsao describing the Philippines as “a nation of servants” as well as his profile photo has been pulled out of the online edition of HK Magazine. Tsao’s March 27 article entitled “The War at Home,” which sparked uproar from politicians, migrant workers and Filipinos all over the world, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Economist Kelly Bird: 4.3-M Filipinos poor without remittances</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blogtopia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Money sent home by Filipinos working abroad have kept at least 4 million Filipinos out of poverty as of 2006, an Asian Development Bank (ADB) economist said Tuesday. Kelly Bird, senior economist at ADB&#8217;s Southeast Asia department, described remittances as &#34;a major anti-poverty driver&#34; in the country. &#34;Remittances have reduced the national headcount poverty rate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pinoys in HK to stage protests over &#8216;racist&#8217; article</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 06:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blogtopia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Filipino community in Hong Kong will launch street protests starting Sunday in light of a columnist&#8217;s branding of the Philippines as a &#34;nation of servants,&#34; a Filipino envoy said on Tuesday. Romulo Salud, labor attache of the Philippine consulate general in Hong Kong, said in an interview over radio dzBB that the Filipino community [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Noli says pardon for 2 OFWs still possible</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:19:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vice-President Noli de Castro on Friday said Philippine embassy officials in Kuwait are still working on getting a pardon for&#160; two overseas Filipino workers, May Vecina and Marilou Ranario, even if they have already been saved from the death row. &#8220;At least, buhay yung tao. May possibility pa na mabigyan ng pardon. Dadagdagan natin ang [...]]]></description>
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