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	<description>Updating You On Overseas Filipino Workers Worldwide</description>
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		<title>Australia to Cut Number of Immigrants</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 22:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PHILIPPINE STAR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Australia’s main opposition party vowed Sunday to cut the number of immigrants allowed into the country if it wins in next month’s elections. Australia’s rapid population growth and increase in asylum seekers, mainly from Afghanistan and Sri Lanka, have become major issues ahead of the Aug. 21 elections. Critics argue that the major parties are [...]


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		<title>Japan Training Program Is Said to Exploit Workers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:08:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PINOY OFW ADMIN</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[labor dispute]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Six young Chinese women arrived in this historic city three summers ago, among the tens of thousands of apprentices brought to Japan each year on the promise of job training, good pay and a chance at a better life back home. Instead, the women say, they were subjected to 16-hour workdays assembling cellphones at below [...]


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		<title>Filipina Maid in Singapore Inherits Over 4 Million Dollars</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PINOY OFW ADMIN</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic Helpers / Au Pairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Singapore]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A devoted Filipina maid inherited six million Singapore dollars (more than four million US) from her late employer after more than 20 years of service, a newspaper report said Wednesday. &#8220;I am the luckiest maid in Singapore, with or without the money,&#8221; the 47-year-old single woman &#8212; identified only by the pseudonym &#8220;Christine&#8221; &#8212; told [...]


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		<title>Disturbance: 24 PAGASA Specialists Lose Hope, Leave Philippines</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 01:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>INQUIRER.NET</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Arab Emirates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brain drain]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) has lost 24 key personnel, most of them experienced weather forecasters, in the past 10 years to lucrative offers from abroad, the Inquirer has learned. Brain drain is not the only disturbance beclouding the state agency, on whose forecasts depend the lives of countless Filipinos. The [...]


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		<title>Binay Seeks Enhanced Training for Filipina Nurses, Caregivers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 21:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MANILA BULLETIN</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vice President Jejomar Binay Monday appealed to the Japanese government to help further enhance the training of Filipino nurses and caregivers mulling to work in Japan under the Japan–Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA). Japanese Ambassador Makato Katsura also Monday paid a courtesy visit on the Office of the Vice President, which lasted for about 30 [...]


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		<title>Filipina Tastes Success in Cambodia</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 08:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PINOY OFW ADMIN</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cambodia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Outstanding Filipinos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teresa Gutierrez]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Starting any business from scratch is a challenge, but coupled with the premise of selling unfamiliar products to a new country, it takes an individual with brains, bravery and sheer bloody-minded persistence to make it work. Fortunately, EXL Filmart President Teresa Gutierrez has all three. EXL Filmart, which set up base in Phnom Penh in [...]


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		<title>Are Maids Diluting Singaporean Culture?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 07:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PINOY OFW ADMIN</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE politically correct term is &#8220;helper&#8221;, but most people tend to call them maids. And they are a growing population in Singapore, with many of them employed by the Indian community living here. As more women in Singapore join, or in some cases re-join, the workforce &#8211; 53 per cent of the women here are [...]


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		<title>HK Excludes Domestic Helpers From Minimum Wage Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 04:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GMANEWS.TV</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic Helpers / Au Pairs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Asian Migrants Coordinating Body (AMCB) spokesperson Dolores Balladares told GMANews.TV in a phone interview that Hong Kong’s Legislative Council shot down an amendment to the proposed Statutory Minimum Wage (SMW) that would have included foreign domestic workers. “Slavery, marginalization and discrimination has now been put into law in HK. There is neither justice nor democracy [...]


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		<title>Singapore Needs 100,000 Workers As Economy sizzles</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>INQUIRER.NET</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Singapore will need 100,000 new foreign workers this year to keep on track an economy enjoying a stunning rebound, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said in remarks published Thursday. Rich but worker-starved Singapore has historically rolled out the welcome mat for foreigners, whose numbers rose dramatically in the boom of 2004-2007. But with one in [...]


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		<title>RP Consul General in China Warns &#8216;Mules&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MANILA TIMES</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The country’s envoy to Guangzhou in China on Tuesday warned Filipino travelers to be wary of accepting and carrying packages, which they suspect to contain drugs, after cases of drug trafficking in China involving Filipinos reached an alarming 69 cases. Consul General Joselito Jimeno reiterated in a statement that Filipino travelers must be vigilant of [...]


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