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		<title>The few Filipinos who are at home in Valladolid, Spain</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:53:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremaiah Opiniano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Texts and photos by Jeremaiah Opiniano VALLADOLID, Spain—SPANIARDS coming from this place, like a former king and some Augustinian priests who became bishops in Manila and Cebu during the 17th century, conquered Filipinos and their land about four centuries ago. But today at Spain’s former seat of power and the capital of the Castilla y [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Filipinos’ favorite Hangout in Spain</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremaiah Opiniano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BARCELONA, SPAIN—THE outlet of the popular Brazilian coffee shop Bracafe in Paloma district is Filipinos’ favourite hangout, like this gentleman in a cap. OFWJC Photo Service]]></description>
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		<title>OFWJC’s 10th Year Anniversary Message</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:40:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremaiah Opiniano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ten-year-old global nonprofit media service]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Care and feeding of migration journalism,  a decade hence —Adopted from an essay written by Pulitzer Prize winner and juror Jacqui Banaszynski IN a serene compound a decade ago, a writing plot was conceived. That humid January afternoon inside a Jesuit-run university, three men dipped into their warm coffee cups to hatch their hot idea. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home, family rockband, businesses keep seaman sturdy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:26:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremaiah Opiniano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012-News-Packet-Vol-11-01-02]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[cebu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hagpong sa Pagtinabangay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Model OFW Family of the Year]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[PASAY CITY—CANDIDO Caminero’s legs didn’t wobble in his recent band sortie with some of his nine children. There are over-12 videos in his son’s laptop to prove it. One would not even think the 63-year-old is tired and weary from months-long work as chief engineer in ships. On this return home from his 21st year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hometown is in former seafarer’s heart</title>
		<link>http://www.ofwjournalism.net/hometown-is-in-former-seafarers-heart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremaiah Opiniano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012-News-Packet-Vol-11-01-02]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[entrepreneurialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Model Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) Family awardees]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[OWWA’s 2011 Model OFW Family Awards (MOFYA)]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[MAKATICITY—A FORMER ship captain’s low-income hometown is 151.66 kilometers away from here. The structures in his hometown of Bautista, Pangasinan have nothing on the slickness of the marbles, tiles, and furnishings of the multi-storey office building of Capt. Manolo Gacutan. But it doesn’t matter, says the president and general manager of Dohle-Philman Manning Agency. “I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Job perks matter, not permanent stay</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremaiah Opiniano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[KUALA LUMPUR,MALAYSIA—THERE is a swagger in Roy as he bends his left hand to hold a circular tray filled with used plates and wine glasses. As he sees a Iranian woman customer who is almost full eating breakfast, the Iloilo province native says with an English twang, “I will take care of your plate Madam.” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anxiety to repay biz loans may weaken DOLE program</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 06:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremaiah Opiniano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Land Bank of the Philippines (LandBank)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Livelihood Development Corp. (NLDC)]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[small and medium enterprises (SMEs)]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[PASAY CITY—A MONTHS-OLD program handing out business loans to returning migrant workers does not require collateral from borrowers, and a finance expert thinks borrowers might encounter uneasiness to repay these loans. The P2 billion Reintegration Fund for returning overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) hands out loans ranging from P200,000 to P2 million to existing migrant entrepreneurs. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amid EU crisis, Pinoy bayanihan brews in Spanish cafe</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 06:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremaiah Opiniano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Asociacion Filipina de Escritores e Investigadores en España]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OFWs in Barcelona Spain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spain’s debt problem]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[BARCELONA, SPAIN—A FAIR-SKINNED man slides on the chair beside Rodrigo as the sun hides behind century-old houses and birds chirp from slender trees lining the Bracafe coffee shop here. Rodrigo lets out a breath of relief, recognizing the man as Filipino who may have good news as Spain grapples with a debt crisis and migrant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seaman’s wife stretches income via rubber plant investment</title>
		<link>http://www.ofwjournalism.net/seamans-wife-stretches-income-via-rubber-plant-investment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 03:23:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremaiah Opiniano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[most outstanding Filipino seafaring family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new rubber planting areas in Palawan]]></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>
		<link>http://www.ofwjournalism.net/same-sex-marriage-brings-pinoy-mixed-feelings-on-migration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 03:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Candice Y. Cerezo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[leave my mother and sister]]></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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