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Anywhere
but Qatar, survey of expats shows
by
Jeremaiah Opiniano,
OFWJC
MANILA—CANADA or bust, majority of expatriates
surveyed in 26 countries revealed.
An international bank’s survey of 26 countries showed that
Canada is the best place for expatriates to settle in.
While the Philippines hosts expats of multinational companies,
it was excluded in the survey. Still, except for Vietnam and Mexico,
all the countries included were destinations for migrant Filipino
workers.
Full
story
Overseas
Pinoy helps sustain Cebu-Dutch city sisterhood
by
Jeremaiah Opiniano,
OFWJC
CEBU CITY–MIGRANT Filipinos continue to burn the
passion of city sisterhood through a fire truck, which is expected
to arrive here after a 15,000-kilometer journey.
For 47 days in mid-June 2010, a fire truck route from the northern
Dutch municipality of Haarlemmermeer (pronounced “jar-le-mer-mir”)
celebrates a goodwill gesture brokered by migrant Filipinos since
1990. Full
story
Pinoys
abroad tapped to wake up sleepy town of Bohol
by
Jeremaiah Opiniano,
OFWJC
MARIBOJOC, Bohol–THE explorer Pigafetta would have
chosen this town over Mactan had it already sported a Hollywood-like
sign on its mountain ranges.
But had this town did, it may have attracted not only Pigafetta
–desperate to escape after his and Ferdinand Magellan’s
fleet was pummeled in the Battle of Mactan– but also other
explorers who may know only Bohol because of its famed chocolate
hills. Full story
Gov’t
awardee says few options for OFW families in Maguindanao
by
Jeremaiah Opiniano,
OFWJC
PASAY CITY, Metro Manila—MAGUINDANAO province, the
site of a mass killing last month, is one of the safest places in
the country.
That is according to Abdilah Malasigan, whose family was recently
hailed as the Model Overseas Filipino Workers Family (MOFYA) this
year for the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao. Full
story
Analysis:
Peso a turnkey in OFW money flow
by
Isagani De la Paz,
OFWJC
IT’S a catch-22 of sorts for the Philippines as remittances
from Filipinos abroad continue to strengthen the peso, threatening
to dampen its flow.
The latter occurring, while expected by some
financial executives, won’t help an economy already hurting
from a drop in exports that continues to reel from a strong peso.
The peso flexed its muscles again on the first day of trading of
a new year, reflecting a sustained strengthening against a weakening
greenback. 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
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