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	<title>PINOY OFW &#187; Singapore</title>
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	<description>Updating You On Overseas Filipino Workers Worldwide</description>
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		<title>Filipinos in Singapore Reaches Out To New Immigrants</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 02:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PINOY OFW ADMIN</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE Filipino Association of Singapore (FAS), prompted by its growing community here, is taking on a bigger role in the integration of new immigrants, especially those from the Philippines. It is looking to work with government agencies and other expatriate associations in organising grassroots activities and events where Singaporeans and foreigners from all over get [...]


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		<title>Singaporeans Find it Harder to Hire Filipino Maids</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 06:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PINOY OFW ADMIN</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic Helpers / Au Pairs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A RECENT tightening of Philippine laws has made it tougher for employers here to hire Filipinas as domestic workers. Immigration screening has been stepped up, and those bound for jobs here without the proper papers have been stopped from leaving the country. The amendments to the Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipinos Act of 1995 is [...]


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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>
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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>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>
				<category><![CDATA[Singapore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[culture]]></category>

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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>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>
				<category><![CDATA[Job Vacancies]]></category>
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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>Lack of Local Skills Prompt Filipino Silicon Wafer Firm to Move to Singapore</title>
		<link>http://www.pinoy-ofw.com/news/2324-lack-of-local-skills-prompt-filipino-silicon-wafer-firm-to-move-to-singapore.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MALAYA</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Filipino Engineers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For lack of local expertise, First Philec Solar Corp., the only Filipino-owned company making silicon wafers for solar power, will base its R&#038;D laboratory in Singapore. While there is the desire to set up the research and development lab in the Philippines, there are very few PhDs and post-graduate scientists and engineers able to do [...]


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		<title>Pinoy Sailors Remit $888M in Q1 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 22:37:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PINOY OFW ADMIN</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FILIPINO sailors on foreign oceangoing vessels remitted $888.949 million in the first quarter, the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) reported. The amount was 11.04 percent higher —or $88.414 million more—than the $800.535 million they sent over the same three-month period last year. TUCP secretary-general Ernesto Herrera said the 11.04-percent growth in the remittance [...]


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		<title>POEA Warns Vs Seasonal Jobs in Italy, DH in Singapore</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 01:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PINOY OFW ADMIN</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) yesterday warned aspiring overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) against job offers in Italy and Singapore. Night time in Bari, Italy. Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwwflickrcomphotosciddone/ POEA chief Jennifer Manalili said they received reports of recruitment agencies and individuals promising jobs as seasonal workers in Italy. Manalili noted that seasonal workers can be [...]


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		<title>All Systems Go for Hong Kong, Singapore Absentee Voting</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 23:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GMANEWS.TV</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everything seems to be in place and everyone seems to be ready for the upcoming absentee voting for Filipinos in Hong Kong and Singapore. This marks the first automated election for overseas Filipinos. The Esplanade in Singapore. Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/henrylohtravel/ Filipinos in the two Asian cities were the priorities of the program because of their [...]


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		<title>OFWs in Hong Kong, Singapore Go for Electronic Voting in 2010 Elections</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PINOY OFW ADMIN</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Registered overseas Filipino workers based in Hong Kong and Singapore will cast their votes electronically in the upcoming elections in the Philippines on May 10. This was confirmed by the Commission on Elections, affirming that OFWs from these cities will use the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines within a period of one month from [...]


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