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	<title>OFW Journalism Consortium &#187; 2010 News Packet</title>
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		<title>Seaman’s wife stretches income via rubber plant investment</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 03:23:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremaiah Opiniano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010-News-Packet-Vol-09-10]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bureau of Agricultural Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[most outstanding Filipino seafaring family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new rubber planting areas in Palawan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philippines-East Asian Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rubber plantation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[PASAY CITY — Early evening here in an air-conditioned room, Sandra dela Cruz performed what she does every morning far south in her rubber plantation: stretching a hand. But while the 50-year-old spouse of a seaman is used to doing the latter, there was a lifting feeling as she did the former. Who wouldn’t be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Same sex marriage brings Pinoy mixed feelings on migration</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 03:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Candice Y. Cerezo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010-News-Packet-Vol-09-10]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[breadwinner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leave my mother and sister]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marriage of both males]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(First of three parts) I AM A CONSORT in waiting, waiting to be petitioned by my fiancé to Australia, a country open to marriage of both males. This is our story. Our engagement is a very long one: I said yes in 2009. Marriage proposals are usually followed by the marriage itself a year or within [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mention of migration in PH growth plan gets tepid reception</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 03:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremaiah Opiniano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010-News-Packet-Vol-09-10]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[absence of a long-term vision for migration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deployment of Filipino workers abroad hit its peak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[migration is a temporary option]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[MANILA — A ladybug walking on a green leaf may excite advocates more than the mere mention of migration in government’s new six-year growth plan. Edwin Corros of the Philippine Catholic bishops’ Episcopal Commission on Migrants and Itinerant People (ECMI) says this is due to the absence of a long-term vision for migration, and for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PH delegates to global migration gab want less talk</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 03:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruben Jeffrey A. Asuncion</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010-News-Packet-Vol-09-10]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil Society Days (CSD)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[distressed overseas Filipino workers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Forum for Migration and Development (GFMD)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[there is no monitoring or impact assessment yet]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[QUEZON CITY — It was originally a gabfest, but three delegates from the Philippines may have had enough of the talks and are itching for something more solid action from government delegates in the annual Global Forum for Migration and Development. “GFMD was just talk show among the delegates where space is given for them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tagalog gains Berlin-born Pinoys’ ears</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 09:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruelle Alberto</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010-News-Packet-Vol-09-05-06]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Complementing Projekt Bayernallee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[courtesy of religion-related activities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Filipino Community-Berlin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[integration for Filipinos to the German society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[language lesson interactive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[native tongue]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[BERLIN, Germany — APPRECIATION for the Tagalog language is gaining ground in Germany, as young Filipino-German children gets re-exposed to their “native tounge,” courtesy of religion-related activities in Berlin. Since late last year, the church-sponsored Filipino Community-Berlin, commonly called Bayernallee has been giving formal language appreciation classes to Germany-born children. Every week for about three [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Berlin church helps animate Filipino spirit</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 08:59:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremaiah Opiniano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010-News-Packet-Vol-09-05-06]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[a sense of family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Couples for Christ (CFC)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[generally religious]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marginalized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[more Filipinos Holy Ghost Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sunday service in Bayernallee]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[BERLIN, Germany – IT TAKES some migrants here three rides to the Holy Ghost Church wake up their Filipino spirit. One of them is 65 year-old Filipina Ludivina Kielgas, who tugs at her coat during the 15-minute wait for her first ride, a bus. She glances at the direction of the nearby Catholic church, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cash lesson for Pinoys cited in crisis-hit Japan</title>
		<link>http://www.ofwjournalism.net/cash-lesson-for-pinoys-cited-in-crisis-hit-japan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 08:57:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremaiah Opiniano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010-News-Packet-Vol-09-05-06]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[increase in remittance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lower-paying jobs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[PASIG CITY – A REAL-TIME crash course in cash management still grips Filipinos in Japan as the world’s second-largest economy still attempts to clamber out of recession. “They [Filipinos] have to start saving or investing rather than just spending” in these times of crisis, sociologist Ma. Rosario Piquero-Ballescas of Toyo University in Bunkyo-ku district said. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asia structurally dependent on labor migration –analysts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 08:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremaiah Opiniano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010-News-Packet-Vol-09-05-06]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global financial crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[higher growth in real GDP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[natural disasters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[political strife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[structurally dependent on migration]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[PASIG CITY – ANALYSTS claim the movement of workers from home countries in Asia already reached a level wherein their economies are now “structurally dependent” on migration. Labor migration for Asia is “not a mom-and-pop story anymore,” Ma. Alcestis Mangahas of the International Labor Organization (ILO) told migration analysts and stakeholders at a recent forum [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crisis pushed more Pinoys abroad — analyst</title>
		<link>http://www.ofwjournalism.net/crisis-pushed-more-pinoys-abroad-analyst/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 08:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremaiah Opiniano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010-News-Packet-Vol-09-05-06]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diversification of the OFW workforce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scalabrini Migration Center]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[PASIG CITY — CRISIS not only brings out the best in people; in the Philippines’s case, it brought out the best people and in droves. So claims Maruja M.B. Asis of the Scalabrini Migration Center. At a policy conference organized by the SMC here, Asis said there’s a visible volume of OFWs across all occupational [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Noynoy do a Cory on overseas labor export?</title>
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		<comments>http://www.ofwjournalism.net/will-noynoy-do-a-cory-on-overseas-labor-export/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 08:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremaiah Opiniano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010-News-Packet-Vol-09-05-06]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[concrete investments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diasporic dividend]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy’s resilient force]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labor migration and national development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[MANILA – IS Benigno Simeon “Noynoy” Aquino III his mother’s son when it comes to overseas labor export? Aquino, set to become the 15th Philippine president, may opt to follow-through with his mother’s institutionalization of the economy’s resilient force: overseas Filipino workers. Under his mother, the late President Corazon Aquino, government hand in the deployment [...]]]></description>
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