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	<title>OFW Journalism Consortium &#187; 2008 News Packet</title>
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		<title>The OFW Journalism Consortium: A Reader’s View</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ildefonso F. Bagasao</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2008-News-Packet-Vol-07-05-10]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[a small band of journalists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advocacy for migrant empowerment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stories about overseas Filipino workers (OFWs)]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Editor’s note: The author is president of the nonprofit Economic Resource Center for Overseas Filipinos (Ercof), and plays the bass guitar and keyboards. AMONG my peers, there seems to be a common observation in the reporting of any kind of news that media generally shows bias for sensational stories that whet the reading public’s appetite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Migration Journalism: The story of the OFW Journalism Consortium</title>
		<link>http://www.ofwjournalism.net/migration-journalism-the-story-of-the-ofw-journalism-consortium/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Estopace and Jeremaiah Opiniano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2008-News-Packet-Vol-07-05-10]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consortium members]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Policy Reform and Advocacy (AdMU-EPRA) network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Resource Center for Overseas Filipinos (ERCOF)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free news to overseas Filipino workers and their families]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Organization for Migration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OFW news funding stopped]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ofwjournalism.net/?p=704</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[IT WAS a humid afternoon six years ago when three men sipped coffee and conspired against Philippine journalism. “It’s a crazy idea but it could work,” one of the men, a reporter for The Manila Times then, said. “What could be different…,” the youngest of the trio, who would fly off to Maldives in six [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Schengen Diaries</title>
		<link>http://www.ofwjournalism.net/schengen-diaries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Alzona</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2008-News-Packet-Vol-07-05-10]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Filipinos in Belgium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OFWs in Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OFWs in UK]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Schengen visa]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ofwjournalism.net/?p=701</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[THERE wasn’t a “Keep silent” sign inside the interview room, but you could hear a pin drop inside the Belgian Embassy in Makati City. Everyone lining up for a Schengen visa could hear a whisper, even of those getting interviewed. It was my sixth time in the Embassy and things were as they were since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seafaring industry’s policies on treatment of women on troubled water</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Alzona</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2008-News-Packet-Vol-07-05-10]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Associated Marine Officers’ Union of the Philippines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[male-dominated seafaring industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[no discrimination of gender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women seafarers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ofwjournalism.net/?p=698</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[FOUR graduates of the Maritime Academy of the Asia and the Pacific are at greater risk than their classmates because they are women. University of the Philippines professor Lucia Palpal-latoc Tangi came to this conclusion after in-depth interviews with a dozen women seafarers, most of who are working as bar waitresses, utility, and massage therapists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trade Advantage</title>
		<link>http://www.ofwjournalism.net/trade-advantage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:06:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremaiah Opiniano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2008-News-Packet-Vol-07-05-10]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Union Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OFWs in Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tours and Paris]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ofwjournalism.net/?p=695</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Reporting from Tours and Paris, France and from Binangonan, Rizal Province, Philippines IN TOURS, France, they buried the fountain of youth. In this garden city south of Paris is where a quarter of a million people speak the country’s purest French. Visibly, the elderly walk slowly through. Tours’s tourist spots, enjoying the crisp air and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Government auditors rule failure of migration policies in protecting OFWs</title>
		<link>http://www.ofwjournalism.net/government-auditors-rule-failure-of-migration-policies-in-protecting-ofws/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ofwjournalism.net/government-auditors-rule-failure-of-migration-policies-in-protecting-ofws/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madelaine Joy A. Estrada and Jeremaiah M. Opiniano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2008-News-Packet-Vol-07-05-10]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[illegal recruiters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inefficiencies as efforts by the POEA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[no database of recruitment agencies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[POEA ineffective policies and lapses in the implementation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scam in prison]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ofwjournalism.net/?p=692</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[INSURANCE agent Lilian Baltazar couldn’t put illegal recruiter Joel behind bars – he already is. The ability to operate a scam in prison highlights what government auditors discovered in its appraisal of Philippine policies on recruitment for overseas work. The Commission on Audit concludes a state policy failure in arresting illegal recruitment. Take Baltazar’s experience [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sheltered Lives</title>
		<link>http://www.ofwjournalism.net/sheltered-lives/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ofwjournalism.net/sheltered-lives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:04:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carlo S. Liberato and Ruben Jeffrey A. Asuncion</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2008-News-Packet-Vol-07-05-10]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bahrain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[helping abused OFWs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human trafficking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kanlungan Centre Foundation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kuwait]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oldest nonprofit group for abused women migrant workers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ofwjournalism.net/?p=689</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[QUEZON CITY, PHILIPPINES — Rain is pouring in buckets as Imelda Rebate steps inside the office of Kanlungan Centre Foundation, the oldest nonprofit group for abused women migrant workers. Across the drenched porch, a younger woman is at a peach-colored table, her head slightly bowed and eyes fixed on an open tattered and yellowing folder. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buying, selling may be key to Asian migrants’ unity</title>
		<link>http://www.ofwjournalism.net/buying-selling-may-be-key-to-asian-migrants-unity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ofwjournalism.net/buying-selling-may-be-key-to-asian-migrants-unity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremaiah Opiniano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2008-News-Packet-Vol-07-05-10]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bayanihang Pinoy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FIlipinos in Kuala Lumpur]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OFWs in Malaysia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Samahang Impok Bayan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ofwjournalism.net/?p=686</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA—The Kota Raya shopping mall here on Sundays reflects that Asian migrant workers understand each other if their heads of state allow the market as a platform for communication. Here, words melding with nods and a thumbs-up sign are easily understood as agreement on a certain price for hand-woven silk or hand-sewn leather [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Caregiver, Millionaire</title>
		<link>http://www.ofwjournalism.net/caregiver-millionaire/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ofwjournalism.net/caregiver-millionaire/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramona Alvir as told to Candice Y. Cerezo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2008-News-Packet-Vol-07-05-10]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caregiver]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Filipinos in US]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OFWs in US]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[USA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[workaholics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ofwjournalism.net/?p=683</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I WILL never forget Edward Fabish; he made me rich. I never thought things would turn out this way. Eight years ago, I was working as a stenographer at the Manila Prosecutors’ Office in City Hall. When I left my job, my bosses –all prosecutors, my colleagues, and fellow stenographers never thought I would take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The houses that migrant workers build (but do not live in)</title>
		<link>http://www.ofwjournalism.net/the-houses-that-migrant-workers-build-but-do-not-live-in/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ofwjournalism.net/the-houses-that-migrant-workers-build-but-do-not-live-in/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Filomeno V. Aguilar Jr. (Contributor)</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2008-News-Packet-Vol-07-05-10]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brightly-lit empty houses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cultural statements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[migrants building houses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unoccupied house]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ofwjournalism.net/?p=680</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Editor’s note: This story is from an ongoing study that the Ateneo de Manila University president, Fr. Bienvenido F. Nebres, S.J., commissioned the author to do. THERE’S a remarkable landscape sculptured in the upland villages of Batangas province, more than a hundred kilometers southeast of Manila. Except for the meandering road, these villages emit a [...]]]></description>
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