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Human
dev’t report reminds of rights of people on the move
by
JEREMAIAH OPINIANO
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.
Full
story
Eight
thousand more Filipinos in Italy in 2008
by JEREMAIAH OPINIANO
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 the 105,675
number ISTAT estimated in 2007.
Full
story
Rehired
land-based OFWs boost worker deployment in last 5 years
by JEREMAIAH
OPINIANO
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).
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story
The
Filipino history that’s overseas —and that’s missing
by
JEREMAIAH OPINIANO
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. Full
story
Ex-OFW
couple stretches noodle business
by
JEREMAIAH OPINIANO
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. Full
story
Rural
bankers try carving niche in OFW market
by JEREMAIAH OPINIANO
LINDA has a problem with money: she has lots of it.
Her worries are less about meeting daily needs, which she gets from
a regular pension, having retired from working as a nonprofit worker,
and spouse of a German, in a European country. Full
story
How
to take care of your money?
Read
the stories of the OFW Journalism Consortium on financial literacy
for Filipinos abroad and their families back home. Click
here
2006
Special Newspacket on Financial Literacy in Overseas Filipinos
by the OFW Journalism Consortium cited in the newsletter Migrant
Remittances
(published by the United States Agency for International Development
[USAID]-Microenterprise Development Office and the United Kingdom
Department for International Development [DFID])
http://www.livelihoods.org/hot_topics/docs/Migrant%20Remittances_Oct06.pdf
These articles are free, but to publish, broadcast, rewrite, or
redistribute this, please write or email the OFW Journalism Consortium
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