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Handful
registered absentee voters may lead to repeal of law
MANILA –
OVERSEAS Filipinos face the repeal of their much fought for overseas
absentee voting law (OAVL) if registration figures continue to
be dismal, a Commission on Elections (Comelec) official bared
to the OFW Journalism Consortium recently. Comelec Commissioner
Florentino Tuason Jr. told the Consortium that if less than a
million would register for overseas absentee voting, this would
make the election process too expensive as had been alleged when
the bill was being debated upon in the Philippine Congress. JULIE
JAVELLANA-SANTOS reports for the OFW Journalism Consortium,
Inc.
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More proof on RP medical brain drain offered
MANILA – A FORMER Department of Health official and other
experts offer additional proof to belie the assertion of Labor Secretary
Patricia Sto. Tomas that there is no “brain drain” phenomenon
in the country. Former Health Secretary Jaime Galvez Tan cited data
from the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA), an
agency under Sto. Tomas’s leadership, that increasing annual
nurse deployment – from only 63 in 1998 to 3,105 in 2002,
is draining the country’s medical labor pool. JULIE
JAVELLANA-SANTOS reports for the OFW Journalism Consortium,
Inc. Full story
Experts
bat for conventional wisdom
MANILA – EXPLAINING concepts and the prevalence of “brain
drain” and “brain gain” threw a monkey wrench
in the attempt by experts to pinpoint the positive and negative
effects of international migration in knowledge societies. And what
a 228-page study by the World Bank, titled International Migration,
Remittances and the Brain Drain, can offer in the long run is conventional
wisdom. WILLIAM ALZONA reports for the OFW Journalism
Consortium, Inc. Full story
OFW
families try to discover new talk technology value
MANILA -- FROM pasting stamps to finger-stamping on handheld
keypads, overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and their families are
discovering that new talk technology has altered much the way they
communicate with each other. CANDICE CEREZO, a
reporter/researcher for a national broadsheet, contributes this
story to the OFW Journalism Consortium, Inc.
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