PASIG CITY, Philippines — Professor studying labor migration in Asia said countries in the region will scuttle to protect their economies but avoid edging out foreign workers as a global financial collapse seeps into real sectors.

One of them is Dr. Yap Mui Teng of the Lee Kwan Yew School of Public Policy under the National University of Singapore.

Pinoy money from Singapore, HK, Japan

MANILA – ESTIMATES by a recent Asian Development Bank study of Filipino workers’ remittances from Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong are higher than the actual money that passed through banks in the Philippines.

The ADB study Southeast Asian Workers’ Remittances showed that Filipinos in Japan, Hong Kong, and Singapore remitted higher than data reported by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP).