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	<title>OFW - Overseas Filipino News</title>
	
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		<title>OFW rights group to get vote for Satur, Liza Maza</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Riyadh, Saudi Arabia &#8211;  A group of Filipino migrant workers endorsed the candidacies of the Makabayan Coalition and Nacionalista Party guest senatorial bets Satur Ocampo and Liza Maza.

“Ang aming grupo ay sumusuporta sa tunay ng boses ng OFWs [Overseas Filipino Workers] na sina Ka Satur at Liza Maza,&#8221; said Eric Jocson, chairperson of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>74 stranded Pinoys arrive from Saudi Arabia</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After being stranded for more than a month in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, some 74 repatriated Filipinos, some of them children, arrived home shortly after midnight Tuesday.

Radio dzBB’s Denver Trinidad reported early Wednesday the 74 Filipinos arrived at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 1 on a Gulf Air flight shortly after midnight.
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		<title>50 OFWs receive “Kabuhayan Starter Kit” from DOLE in Surigao del Sur</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:04:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[50 former Overseas Foreign Workers (OFWs) beneficiaries recently received a &#8220;Starter Kit&#8221; under the &#8220;Kabuhayan Program&#8221; of Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) in San Miguel, this province.

Each starter kit costs P4,000.00 according to Nancy Elizalde, Community Development officer.
In an information coming from Community Development Information Officer (CDIO) Nancy Elizalde, the local government of San [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OFW families spending less on food, more on health — ADB study</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:33:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More families of overseas Filipino workers are spending less on food and more on health, a study by the Asian Development Bank revealed.

Using econometric estimations, Filipino Alvin Ang, Indian Shikha Jha, and Indonesian Guntur Sugiyarto noted that the percentage share of expenditures of migrant households to food went down slightly, from 44.9 percent in 2000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Repatriated OFWs from ME fighting new battle in Manila</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[About a hundred repatriated overseas Filipino workers and their supporters started camping out in front of the office of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) Wednesday, and vowed not to leave until their demands are addressed, including reimbursement of their repatriation costs and payment of unpaid wages and benefits.

The demonstration included 40 female caregivers recently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Pinoy casualties in Taiwan quake – MECO</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:34:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No Filipino was hurt in the powerful 6.4-magnitude quake that rocked Taiwan Thursday morning, the Manila Economic and Cultural Office (MECO) said.

MECO resident representative Antonio Basilio said they have not received any casualty reports, even as he assured that the Philippine government is closely coordinating with Taiwan officials to ensure that some 75,000 Filipinos there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NBI: Beware of illegal recruiters</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Illegal Recruiter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[People from the countryside continue to be fooled by illegal job recruiters, the National Bureau of investigation disclosed Tuesday.

NBI Pangasinan Agent-in-Charge Rogelio Mamauag said that his office every now and then receives complaints from victims of illegal recruiters who come mostly from the rural areas. &#8220;Sinasamantala nila ang kahirapan at gusto naman ng ating mga [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gulf nations’ job markets improve despite crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The job market in Gulf countries are improving despite the global economic slowdown, a survey undertaken by an online recruitment portal in the Middle East that was cited by the Philippine government said.

The GulfTalent.com survey, cited by the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration, covered Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman and the United Arab Emirates for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Illegal OFWs in Oman to benefit from amnesty</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:50:41 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Oman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Illegal or overstaying Filipino expatriate workers in Oman stand to benefit from an amnesty allowing them to leave the country before March 31.

The Arabian country in Southwest Asia has advised countries, including the Philippines, of the amnesty period, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said.
The Oman Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent a note verbale [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RP govt asked to help stop migrants crackdown in Thailand</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Thailand]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Middle East chapter of migrants’ rights group Migrante has urged the Philippines to help put a stop in the impending crackdown of migrant workers in Thailand.

In a statement, Migrante-Middle East said the Philippines, as one of the signatories to the United Nations Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and [...]]]></description>
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