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	<title>PINOY OFW &#187; United Arab Emirates</title>
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	<description>Updating You On Overseas Filipino Workers Worldwide</description>
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		<title>Study: Filipino Drivers Most Fuel-efficient</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Shell FuelSave Report]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Filipino motorists are the most fuel-efficient conscious drivers around but they are also stingy when spending on gas, a study funded by a multinational energy company stated. Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sir_mervs/ According to the latest Shell FuelSave Report conducted among 300 motorists in 11 countries last March 2010, 78% of Filipino drivers said they have become [...]


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		<title>Filipino HR Professionals in UAE to Assist Kababayans</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PINOY OFW ADMIN</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Filipino HR Professionals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Arab Emirates]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Filipinos in the UAE who are facing problems at work or seeking new jobs can now turn to a new group of human resources professionals for guidance. Alan Bacason, the president of the Filipino Human Resources Practitioners’ Association, which refers to itself as Fil-HR, said the group intends to act as a “conduit” between Filipino [...]


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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>Filipino Musicians Go Global</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:33:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PINOY OFW ADMIN</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Filipino Musicians]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Arab Emirates]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Along with all the sounds of streetlife reverberating in the UAE – the horns, the call to prayer, the revving engines and snatches of song from across the world – a constant soundtrack is provided by one of the most thriving of expatriate communities. Big ballads and belting rock classics are the signature anthem of [...]


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		<title>OFWs Warned Against Illegally Entering Iran Via Kish Island</title>
		<link>http://www.pinoy-ofw.com/news/2564-ofws-warned-against-illegally-entering-iran-via-kish-island.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 03:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SAUDI GAZETTE</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime Related]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Domestic Helpers / Au Pairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Arab Emirates]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ambassador Mariano A. Dumia, who was recently appointed Charge d’Affaires at the Philippine Embassy in Iran pending his formal designation as chief of mission, has warned Filipinos against illegally entering Iran via the Iranian island of Kish from the United Arab Emirates to work as housemaids or act as mules in the drug trade. Speaking [...]


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		<title>17 Filipino ‘Gang’ Members Held Over Human Trafficking</title>
		<link>http://www.pinoy-ofw.com/news/2501-17-filipino-%e2%80%98gang%e2%80%99-members-held-over-human-trafficking.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 07:19:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PINOY OFW ADMIN</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crime Related]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Arab Emirates]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A “criminal gang” of 17 Filipino men and women has been arrested on suspicion of human trafficking. The defendants were caught in a police raid earlier this month in three buildings in Abu Dhabi after a woman who had been trafficked – one of nine the gang was holding captive – called the police. The [...]


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		<title>Filipino Muslims Ship Dates to Celebrate Ramadan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 07:17:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PINOY OFW ADMIN</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[United Arab Emirates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ramadan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A group of Filipino Muslims in the Emirates has been stocking up on dates to ship back to mosques and less-privileged Muslim families in their home country in time for Ramadan next month. Hanifah Ampatua, the president of the UAE Maranao Community, which refers to itself as Marcom, said the group would ship 500kg of [...]


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		<title>Dubai Court Upholds Pinoy’s Conviction for Stabbing Iranian</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GMANEWS.TV</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Dubai appellate court upheld Tuesday a five-year jail term for a 22-year-old Filipino convicted of stabbing an Iranian woman and robbing her in a parking lot in Badaa area in April 2009. The court panel presided by Judge Moustapha Shinawi also upheld the deportation order against the Filipino, news site Khaleej Times reported Wednesday. [...]


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		<title>&#8216;UAE, Qatar, Oman OFW Entry Points to Afghanistan, Iraq&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:21:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PHILIPPINE STAR</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Illegal Recruitment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unscrupulous recruitment agencies in the country have been continuously deploying Filipino workers not only in war-torn Afghanistan but also in Iraq, a migrant rights&#8217; group disclosed. Migrante-Middle East regional director John Monterona also claimed that overseas Filipino workers are being sent to these countries despite the deployment ban by the Philippine government using the United [...]


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		<title>Filipino Migrants&#8217; Forum Begins With Pledge to Protect Workers&#8217; Rights</title>
		<link>http://www.pinoy-ofw.com/news/1469-filipino-migrants-forum-begins-with-pledge-to-protect-workers-rights.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 23:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PINOY OFW ADMIN</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[United Arab Emirates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[migrant workers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The first migrants’ forum for Filipino workers opened yesterday with organisers announcing plans to form a new committee to help protect employees’ rights. More than 80 Filipino community groups based in Dubai and the northern Emirates are joining forces to create an ad-hoc committee to offer help and support to the nearly 600,000 Filipinos who [...]


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