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		<title>Clinton to youth: ‘RP needs you’</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday said that while the Philippines’ “great export” is its people, Filipinos should also find ways to contribute and serve the country.

“The Philippines needs you,” Clinton said during a forum organized by ABS-CBN at the University of Sto. Tomas in Manila.
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		<title>Ex-OFW couple stretches noodle business</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.

Aside from the dogs, the Jimenez [...]]]></description>
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		<title>500 Pinoys jailed on drug charges worldwide</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Around 500 Filipinos are in various jails around the world due to drug smuggling, with 210 of them detained in China alone, the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Tuesday.

Joselito Jimeno, Philippine Consul General in Guangzhou, China, said 95 Filipinos are currently languishing in various jails in Chinese territories – four of whom are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cyclone-hit OFWs claim P10K calamity loans from OWWA</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thousands of overseas Filipino workers affected by tropical cyclones Ondoy and Pepeng have already received the P10,000 calamity loan from the Overseas Workers’ Welfare Admisitration (OWWA).

In a statement, the OWWA said the OFW applicants received their checks ahead of the All Saints’ Day weekend.
&#8220;OWWA will continue releasing the checks over the coming days,&#8221; it said.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Somali pirates seize ship with 19 Pinoy crewmen</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NAIROBI, Kenya — Somali pirates on Wednesday seized a cargo ship in the Indian Ocean with 22 crew members on board, the European Union Naval Force said.

Naval spokesman Cmdr. John Harbour said that there are three Greeks and 19 Filipinos among the crew of the Greek-owned Filitsa. The ship is registered in the Marshall Islands.
A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help sought for Pinoys on drug charges in Saudi Arabia</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An advocacy group for called for the immediate assistance to Filipinos who have overstayed their jail terms in Saudi Arabia for drug-related charges.

The Blas F. Ople Foundation, a migrants’ advocacy group, expressed concern over the fate of Jason Pineda who has been in jail for one year and nine months on a drug-related charge without [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OFW remittances One Network Bank’s major anchor</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The remittances of overseas Filipino workers at One Network Banks (ONB) is the bank&#8217;s major product of services in Mindanao with total volume amounting to P551.945 for the first nine months this year. 

ONB president Alex Buenaventura told reporters at the Davao Business Forum at SM&#8217;s MediSpa on Tuesday that for the third quarter alone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2 Pinoy indie films win awards in Brussels</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:42:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mike Sandejas’ &#8220;Dinig Sana Kita&#8221;  won the Grand Prize Award for Special Competition-International Deaf Section while Lou Veloso of the film “Colorum” was hailed as the best actor for International Competition in the recent 36th Brussels International Film Festival (BIFF).

The award came as a big surprise for Sandejas who admitted winning wasn’t his goal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hard times for OFWs in Italy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[REGGIO CALABRIA, Italy – Filipinos based in Reggio Calabria in Italy are trying to make ends meet with the low incomes they earn due to the global financial crisis.

Overseas Filipino worker (OFW) Elma Aguilar said she tries to tighten her belt to pay her personal expenses, and at the same time, send money back to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rehired land-based OFWs boost worker deployment in last 5 years</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contract 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).
The data further shows [...]]]></description>
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