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		<title>National spirit flickers among Filipino diaspora</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremaiah Opiniano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2007-News-Packet-Vol-06-05-06]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Filipino-American Development Foundation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[STRASSEN, Luxembourg – BLADES of scissors meet, snips the head, and severs it from other people in the photograph. It’s the head of the 200th undocumented Filipino who Remie Becker has helped settle down here. “There,” Becker, pushing fifty, whispers as she glues the raggedly-cut head shot on a collage of similarly unevenly-scissored photographs –some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coercion of victim, not movement, key in human trafficking &#8211; US gov&#8217;t report</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:40:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isagani de la Paz and Patricia Marcelo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Batangas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manila North Harbor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matnog Sorsogon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philippine Alliance against Child Trafficking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sasa Davao City]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Editor’s note: On September 24, 2007, the Philippines will host a regional forum on child abuse and neglect. Child trafficking would be one of the many issues expected to be tackled in this three-day conference. MANILA — RUBY, 17, felt her heart bob with the ferry boat taking her and three other girls to Manila [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Migrants&#8217; family lights up rural Philippine village life</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Candice Y. Cerezo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2007-News-Packet-Vol-06-05-06]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sta. Maria Pampanga]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[PAMPANGA — EVERY YEAR for two days, a village in a third class municipality of the Philippine province of Pampanga lights up like a nuclear reactor fall-out. Smack in the center of a dark night sky over rice farms hundreds of kilometers away from the provincial highway, Sta. Maria village glows and beams out light [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Labor execs stick to skills as OFW protector</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:49:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Marcelo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA)]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[MANDALUYONG CITY — THE light-brown beef stew simmering on a pot in a makeshift kitchen here may save Jennifer Dul-loog’s life as a household service worker in Spain. So the 29-year-old prospective overseas Filipino worker and government officials hope. Dul-loog, who would leave for work abroad for the first time, is one of thousands of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pinoys in the US mull &#8216;hero&#8217; tag</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremaiah Opiniano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2007-News-Packet-Vol-06-05-06]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laguna Honda Hospital in San Francisco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TNT]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[BAY FAIR, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A. – OUTSIDE THE five-car intercity train streaks of images rush as white as Rodrigo’s streaks of hair, the flecks of paint on his denim, rubber shoes, and fingers, and the future awaiting undocumented migrant Filipinos like him here. “I’m getting homesick! Let them know I’m a ‘TNT’,” he blurts out in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Money from Pinoys abroad still short of spurring rural growth &#8211; study</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremaiah Opiniano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Institute for Migration and Development Issues (IMDI)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[San Quintin Pangasinan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[University of Santo Tomas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[University of the Philippines in Quezon City]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[SAN QUINTIN, PANGASINAN – THE spire on a Tudor-style mansion encircled by green rice reeds jutting from acres of land here points people to where money, real dollars, could be found: up. The house belongs to Marietta Reyes who, like many of the 5,000 Filipinos in this fourth-class municipality, has flown in 300-seater jumbo jets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peso&#8217;s gain OFW&#8217;s bane</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2007 09:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo J. Santiago and Julie Javellana-Santos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2007-News-Packet-Vol-06-03]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Bank]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[MANILA — In A remittance slip, there was an additional US$50 that Cesar Dimasupil’s daughter Arlene sent from London. But he remained stoic. “That [money] would just even things out,” Dimasupil says of the dilemma that most families of overseas Filipino workers are facing under a stronger peso and a record-low inflation rate. Dimasupil, like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BPI joins fray to capture remittance from Pinoys in Europe</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2007 09:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Alzona</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2007-News-Packet-Vol-06-03]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bank of the Philippine Islands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Metropolitan Bank and Trust Co.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philippine conglomerate Ayala Corp.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rizal Commercial Banking Corp.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Singapore’s DBS Group]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[MAKATI CITY – Before sliding to third position in the Philippine banking industry, Ayala family-led Bank of the Philippine Islands set its eyes on the profitable remittance market that Philippine National Bank previously dominated. But with its shareholder hobbled by regulations in the United States, where bulk of remittances from some eight million overseas Filipinos [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IMF team affirms weak links between OFW money, investment</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2007 07:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremaiah Opiniano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2007-News-Packet-Vol-06-03]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1997 Asian financial crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family Income and Expenditures Survey of the National Statistics Office]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IMF’s Country Report 07/131 (released last March)]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[MANILA — A TEAM from the International Monetary Fund observed that remittances from an estimated eight million Filipinos abroad have not led to increased investments. Ever since the country’s investment ratio has steadily declined since the 1997 Asian financial crisis, increasing remittances “has not increased investment,” IMF’s Ayako Fujita and Srikant Seshadri wrote in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remittances help foil Asia Crisis repeat, World Bank study says</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2007 07:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isagani de la Paz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[World Bank report "Ten Years after the Crisis"]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[MANILA—ACROSS the East Asia region sweeps the wind of prosperity and cash remittances as well as knowledge capital by migrant workers has helped economies become more robust a decade after a devastating crisis. Aside from the Philippines, the World Bank cited remittances from workers overseas also helped other countries like Vietnam and Mongolia to beef [...]]]></description>
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