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	<title>OFW Journalism Consortium &#187; 2009 News Packet</title>
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		<title>Rural bankers try carving niche in OFW market</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:38:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremaiah Opiniano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2009-News-Packet-Vol-08-03-04]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OFW concerns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rural banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sizeable inheritance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[to go beyond money matters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[Reporting from Ibaan municipality, Batangas and Bacolod City, Negros Occidental. Some of the names were changed to protect against probable harm from persons scouring the news for potential victims] Former overseas Filipino workers from rural Philippines, mostly women, seek advice with rural bankers during dialogues with officials and staff of Batangas-based Bangko Kabayan and Negros [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ex-OFW couple stretches noodle business</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:39:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremaiah Opiniano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Development Workers Service Cooperative (Dewseco)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OFW noodle business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philippine Cooperative Central Fund Federation (PCF)]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[MINGLANILLA, Cebu province — This noodle business is going to the dogs – all 20 of them, in fact. Aside from a hobby, the dogs also serve as guardians of the childless couple Susana Jimenez and husband Leonides who learned there is more err, bite, to overseas work if money earned there goes into business. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Filipino history that’s overseas —and that’s missing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:23:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremaiah Opiniano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2009-News-Packet-Vol-08-03-04]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Annual Conference of the Philippine Historical Association (PHA)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[history of overseas Filipino workers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[modern-day heroes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[remittances fuel spending]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sales pitch for government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Excerpts [edited] of a speech at the Annual Conference of the Philippine Historical Association (PHA) 18 September 2009—National Museum, Manila THE topic comes as a surprise: A national conference about the historicity of Filipino heroism, and ordinary people are included. This is not to denigrate overseas Filipinos, or even us ordinary Filipinos. But knowing the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rehired land-based OFWs boost worker deployment in last 5 years</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:21:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremaiah Opiniano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2009-News-Packet-Vol-08-03-04]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[generate one million new jobs for Filipinos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rehired land-based overseas Filipino workers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[MANILA — Contracts for overseas work over a five-year period benefited more rehired land-based overseas Filipino workers, government data reveal. The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) five-year data also revealed that last year, the number of re-hired land-based OFWs reached a five-year high of more than half-a-million (597,426) from less than that in 2004 (419,505). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eight thousand more Filipinos in Italy in 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremaiah Opiniano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2009-News-Packet-Vol-08-03-04]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[destination country for female domestic workers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[documented and irregular or undocumented migrants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fifth-biggest source of remittances]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OFWs in Italy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[second-biggest destination country of Filipinos in Europe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[MANILA — Newly-released data on Italy’s migrant population by that country’s census registry showed that the number of documented Filipinos grew by 8,011 more in 2008. ISTAT (Istituto nazionale di statistica), Italy’s statistics office, said in its October 8 release that there are 113,686 documented Filipinos living in Italy in 2008. This is compared to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Human dev’t report reminds of rights of people on the move</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremaiah Opiniano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2009-News-Packet-Vol-08-03-04]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[basic migrants’ rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[international and internal migration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rights of migrants]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[PASAY CITY – Former Dubai-based bus driver Lisandro feels less awkward despite having been on the road on a passenger seat for over-10 hours. He and 136 male bus drivers have grown accustomed away from the steering wheel since having been stranded in Dubai for three months before coming home April. They have been on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Filipina political leader and entrepreneur in Italy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremaiah Opiniano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2009-News-Packet-Vol-08-02]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[among the five most outstanding overseas Filipino worker (OFW) entrepreneurs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Filipino community center in Italy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is councilor Norma Macalidong (municipal 2) in Rome, Italy. The former domestic worker is among eight Filipinos elected as consiglieri aggiunti (council adviser), on behalf of the migrant population, in some of Rome’s 20 municipalities or villages. Apart from being a councilor, Macalindong has been awarded by the enterprise advocacy group Go Negosyo! in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Flu Flight, a first-person account of traveling while a virus flew to several countries</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremaiah Opiniano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2009-News-Packet-Vol-08-02]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[11 people in Hong Kong]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[14 people in Italy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A(H1N1) virus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[THE current apparent absence of serious concern over the A(H1N1) virus is not unlike the atmosphere after health officials declared a pandemic at the same time I and other Filipinos traveled from Italy. Inside my flight from Rome to Hong Kong, I inadvertently saw a Chinese couple French-kiss; blue surgical masks forgotten, the straps hanging [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Labor Day compels recall of study on women migration</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruben Jeffrey G. Asuncion</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2009-News-Packet-Vol-08-02]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[helping their children “achieve critical success”]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[importance of immigrants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[join family members already living there]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[QUEZON CITY – A study that concluded female migrate to the United States out of filial ties resonates as the nonprofit ethnic media organization behind the study focused on immigrants to celebrate Labor Day. The New America Media group posted on its website a commentary by Manuel Pastor, Professor of Geography and American Studies and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foreign workers for the US are casualties twice over</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>T. Christian Miller (Pro-Publica), contributor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2009-News-Packet-Vol-08-02]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Filipino workers in Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OFWs in Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OFWs in war-torn countries]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(Editor’s note: Reprinting this story is only for the OFW Journalism Consortium. Media outfits wishing to reprint this story must contact ProPublica at dick.tofel@propublica.org or mike.webb@propublica.org [see also http://www.propublica.org/about/steal-our-stories/]. Pro-Publica, www.propublica.org, is an independent, US-based non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest). MANILA — Rey Torres dreamed of a better life for [...]]]></description>
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