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	<title>OFW - Overseas Filipino News</title>
	
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		<title>OFW remittances up by 8.5%</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remittances from overseas Filipino workers coursed through banks rose 8.5 percent to $1.4 billion in January from a year ago, supported by the continued deployment of workers abroad, said the central bank on Monday. 

Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Gov. Amando Tetangco Jr. said remittances from sea-based workers rose 18.1 percent, while remittances from land-based [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US-based Pinay dies after being hit by six vehicles</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MALIBU, CALIFORNIA &#8211; A 73-year-old Filipina caregiver was killed after she was struck by several vehicles on the Pacific Coast Highway while attempting to cross a dark street to catch a bus on Monday morning.

Amelia Ordona died on the spot when a 2006 Honda Accord driven by Jay McNamara, 48, of Los Angeles, hit her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Filipina found dead in her rented room in Singapore</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:12:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Authorities found on Monday a body of a Filipina with stab wounds in an apartment in Singapore, a report said. 

The remains of 30-year-old Roselyn Pascua were recovered by the police past 3 a.m. in her room at Peony Mansion, a low-cost lodging house along the city’s Bencoolen Street.
In a report from The Straits Times, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Filipinos guilty of trafficking in Hong Kong</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:11:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two Filipinos were found guilty by Hong Kong’s Wan Chai District Court of human trafficking in charges filed by their Filipino victims.

In a release posted on the Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO) website on Wednesday, the two Filipinos, a club owner and staff, are facing a maximum penalty of not more than three years.
Sentencing is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RP repatriates 26 OFWs from Doha</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twenty-six distressed overseas Filipino workers arrived in the Philippines Thursday following their repatriation from Doha in Qatar.

According to a release posted on the Website of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), the OFWs arrived 3:35 p.m. aboard Qatar Airways Flight 646.
The DFA said many of the workers were those under the custody of the Filipino [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ireland may deport OFW family for joining strike</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Filipino family that has been staying in Ireland for eight years is now facing possible deportation by Irish authorities due to the father’s participation in a recent workers’ action in a food factory at County Kildare, Ireland.

“According to reports, John Recto, together with his wife and kids, are being threatened of possible deportation from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DFA, Comelec conduct postal vote training in LA, Madrid</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:34:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With barely two months to go before the May 10 elections, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and Commission on Elections (Comelec) conducted trainings on overseas absentee voting for Filipinos in Los Angeles in California and in Madrid, Spain.

The DFA Overseas Absentee Voting Secretariat (OAVS) and Comelec Committee on Overseas Absentee Voting (COAV) focused on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DFA’s regional offices to issue ePassports starting March 15</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Starting Monday, March 15, the Department of Foreign Affairs will issue ePassports in 10 of its 18 regional consular offices (RCO).

The DFA made the announcement Saturday following the opening of its multimillion consular office in Parañaque and the full implementation of the issuance of the ePassport early this week.
The ePassport will be made available to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OWWA to fulfill aid vows for repatriated OFWs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) will fulfill its promises after beleaguered and repatriated workers from Saudi Arabia renewed their protests.

The agency is rushing the financial, medical and transportation assistance it promised to over 60 workers, who were repatriated early this year after refusing to work due to the company’s alleged unfair labor practices, OWWA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OFW rights group to get vote for Satur, Liza Maza</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
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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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