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Issues
spook overseas voting sign-up in US
SAN
FRANCISCO, USA (October 31) — A HALLOWEEN chill hovered
on the lobby of the Philippine consulate here as the last registrant
for voting in the Philippines stepped out the front door, down
concrete steps, and into a nifty late-afternoon weather. Roberta
Dela Rama (not her real name) was the last one to sign up for
overseas voting here in the San Francisco-based consulate, but
other Filipinos think many issues are haunting a satisfying turn-out
of overseas absentee voters. JEREMAIAH M. OPINIANO
reports for the OFW Journalism Consortium and the University of
San Francisco-Center for the Pacific Rim’s Yuchengco Media
Fellows program.
Full story
UN
body sings ‘diaspora investment’ tune
MANILA–
LATE as they are, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
is singing a familiar tune: that remittances could be a development
tool. Calling it "diaspora investment," the Unctad has
urged ountries largely benefiting from the inflow of currency to
tap its potential other than further pushing consumption. WILLIAM
ALZONA reports for the OFW Journalism Consortium. Full
story
Study
to link remittance, Filipino spirituality
SAN FRANCISCO, USA— THERE is something spiritual
in what people like 78-year-old Crisanta Allas does, so thinks Dr.
Joaquin Gonzalez who is studying the link between immigration and
the spirituality of Filipino-Americans in California’s Bay
Area. Preliminary results of the ongoing study by Gonzalez, director
of Philippine Studies at the University of San Francisco, reveals
the connection between the value of giving and being Filipino in
the heart of the country’s colonizers is less tenuous.
JEREMAIAH M. OPINIANO reports for the OFW Journalism Consortium
and the University of San Francisco-Center for the Pacific Rim’s
Yuchengco Media Fellows program. Full
story
Teacher
culls bar-girl work to flay US anti-trafficking policies
SAN
FRANCISCO, USA— WHEN it comes to issues of trafficking in
women, University of California-Davis professor Rhacel Parreñas
should be taken seriously: she has been in the eddy of Japan’s
entertainment industry. JEREMAIAH M. OPINIANO explains
why Parreñas is serious in this report for the OFW Journalism
Consortium and the University of San Francisco-Center for the Pacific
Rim’s Yuchengco Media Fellows program. Full
story
New
course for seafarers seen costly
MANILA—SO many training courses yet
so little to gain. This is what some seafarers are saying, four
months before a few of them would be required to go back inside
a classroom, lest they shun getting a marine officer’s license.
They have to decide –and save money– sooner than later
since by February next year, the new Management Level Officer’s
Training Course for sea-based workers aiming to rise above the ladder,
would be implemented. LEO J. SANTIAGO, JR. reports
for the OFW Journalism Consortium. Full
Story
SIDEBAR
Pinoys bare heroic life as former
modern-day heroes
IMUS, CAVITE—FORMER overseas Filipino
workers like seafarer Rolando Sarno –called “modern-day
heroes” because of their remittances– are now living
lives they call “ordinary” in this province of heroes.
This province would be dashed into the center of commemoration rituals
for the national heroes’ day next week, November 30, but most
of its denizens wouldn’t be aware of the international day
of migrants on December 18. Graduating University of Santo Tomas
journalism student KRISTY ANNE TOPACIO-MANALAYSAY
filed this report as an intern for the OFW Journalism Consortium.
Full
Story
Something
Filipino in top American retail hub
Bloomingdale's, the renowned American department
store that can be seen in New York, opened a branch in downtown
San Francisco September 28, at the old Emporium building. Soon,
on the fifth floor of Bloomingdale's, a Filipino Cultural Center
will greet shoppers. MC Canlas of the Filipino-American Development
Foundation said the contributions by Filipinos in the South of Market
(Street) communtiy, or SOMA, for 80 years were the leverage to negotiate
for that space in Bloomingdale's on a dollar-a-year rent. Filipinos
are the only immigrant group thus far that has such an ethnic center
in Bloomingdale's OFWJC/Jeremaiah M. Opiniano.
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