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	<title>OFW Journalism Consortium &#187; Jeremaiah Opiniano</title>
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		<title>Report: &#8220;OFW remittances slowed down in Feb&#8221; &#8212; Central Bank</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremaiah Opiniano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[improved accessibility of remittance centers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lifting of the bans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[remittances from overseas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[MONEY sent home by Filipinos working overseas may have continued to grow in February but in a slower pace, partly as a result of deployment bans that imposed by the government. In a statement, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said that remittances from overseas Filipinos coursed through banks rose to $1.6 billion in February, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report: Gab to discuss migration&#8217;s quirks in Asia, Middle East</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruben Jeffrey Asuncion, OFW Journalism Consortium</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[four-key action oriented partnerships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[regional consultative process (RCP)]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[MANILA–THIS city will be the venue for top labor officials across Asia to review attempts on improving their governments’ handling of overseas work. These governments sending and receiving migrant workers will, at the Second Abu Dhabi Dialogue this April 17 to 19, attempt to find “bilateral, unilateral, and multilateral government actions” surrounding overseas employment. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exclusive: Crisis won&#8217;t cut off Pinoys&#8217; social security benefits from Spain</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 04:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremaiah Opiniano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Convention on Social Security]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An OFW Journalism Consortium news flash exclusive MANILA—AN economic crisis plaguing Spain will not stop the enforcement of a social security pact between Spain and the Philippines. Social Security System (SSS) Vice President Judy Frances See told the OFW Journalism Consortium the Spanish government has not fallen short in providing the social security benefits of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exclusive: PAG-IBIG hands out P36B housing loans to OFWs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 04:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremaiah Opiniano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pag-IBIG Fund]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Home Development Mutual Fund (HDMF)]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An OFW Journalism Consortium news flash exclusive MANILA—THE Home Development Mutual Fund or the Pag-IBIG Fund, reported that some P36 billion in total housing loans have been granted to over-40,000 members who are overseas Filipino workers since 2007. Tessie Gonzales, deputy chief executive officer of Pag-IBIG, told a recent forum on social security for OFWs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exclusive: Overseas Novo Ecijanos included in home province&#8217;s dev&#8217;t effort</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 04:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremaiah Opiniano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[2009 Family Income and Expenditures Survey (FIES)]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An OFW Journalism Consortium news flash exclusive MANILA—NUEVA Ecija, the country’s rice granary, has just included overseas Filipinos’ concerns in its local development efforts. This was made possible by a migration-and-development plan formulated in a summit organized by the provincial government and a non-government organization recently. Documents obtained by the OFW Journalism Consortium showed that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News Digest: 93 irregular Pinoys in Malaysia detained</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 03:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremaiah Opiniano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[irregular migrants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Operasi Tanduk Siri]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[from an April 2 report by The Borneo Post in Malaysia SANDAKAN, MALAYSIA–A BIG majority of about 100 detained irregular migrants held up in an operation recently were Filipinos.. A Special Task Force, led by deputy director ACP Abdul Aziz Alwee, said a total of 313 people were checked during the first day of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News Digest: Manuals for NZ&#8217;s foreign dairy farmers useful to Pinoys</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 03:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremaiah Opiniano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[dairy workers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Otago Daily Times]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[from an April 2 report by Sally Rae of the Otago Daily Times in New Zealand OTAGO, NEW ZEALAND–FILIPINO dairy workers here and their employers have found as helpful two new guides for dairy farm workers and employrs to work together. The guides “had to be a good thing,” said Filipino dairy farm manager Neil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News Digest: Filipino teachers in US worry on their woring visas</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 04:36:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremaiah Opiniano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Filipino teachers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Record Net News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stockton’s Unified District USA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[temporary visas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[from a March 31 report by Roger Phillips of Record Net (USA) CALIFORNIA, USA—EXPIRING work visas will soon force some 15 Filipino teachers in Stockton’s Unified District in United States out of their classrooms. The Filipino teachers came in US in 2007 with temporary visas, and their visas would expire next year, leaving them worried [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News Digest: Filipino domestic workers in demand in Malaysia</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 04:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremaiah Opiniano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[from a March 31 report by Eunice Au of Asia One (Singapore) KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA–FILIPINO maids are now in demand in Malaysia despite the higher wage employers have to pay for their services. Asia One reported that Filipinas were sought because they were highly trained in doing household chores and in conversing in English. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News Digest: Kin seek help to find missing Negrense OFW</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 04:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremaiah Opiniano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[from a March 29 report by the Visayan Daily Star BACOLOD CITY, NEGROS OCCIDENTAL-RELTIVES of a missing Negrense domestic worker who left for Saudi Arabia are asking help to locate her. Joebie Claraga Bautista, 41, was believed missing since June, 2011. In a Visayan Daily News report, John Leonard Monterona of Migrante-Middle East said a [...]]]></description>
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