50.11 YEARS AFTER THE GULF WAR
[ Posted: 12/16/01 ]
ELEVEN years ago this month, the life of Martha de la Cruz, a Filipina nurse at a government-run hospital in the Gulf state of Kuwait, changed forever when Iraqi troops invaded the oil-rich country. That invasion and occupation triggered a U.S.-led high tech military campaign known as “Operation Desert Storm.”
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49.Success Story: Noypi Shobai
[ Posted: 12/16/01 ]
Taong 1984 nang naghangad siyang mag-abroad sa Saudi. Aniya, naiinggit siya sa mga nagsa-Saudi pero hindi siya pinalad na makarating sa Saudi. Dahil sa tiyaga, nakatagpo rin siya ng agency at naalis din, hindi sa Saudi kundi sa Japan. Ang totoo ay nakipagsapalaran lang siyang magpunta sa Japan. "Ang alam ko noon sa Japan wala pang mga OFW na lalaki. Ang sabi, tourist daw at magkakaroon ako ng trabaho eh di sumige naman ako. Noong naroon na, napasok ako ng trabaho sa construction. Para sa akin sapat na ang suweldo kung ikukumpara sa suweldo sa atin sa Pilipinas, halos triple na, iyon pala ay maliit pa rin iyon kung ikukumpara sa suweldo roon."
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48.Services Sector
[ Posted: 12/16/01 ]
WORLD TRADE IN COMMERCIAL SERVICES is expanding rapidly. The World Trade Organization (WTO) reports that cross-border transactions in services has more than tripled in the past decade outpacing growth in merchandise trade. According to the World Bank, services now account for close to one-quarter of world trade and three-fifths of foreign direct investment (FDI) flows. Primarily propelled by innovations in telecommunications and information technology, the range of ‘tradable’ services has multiplied in recent years. At the same time, demand for the provision of efficient services for firms to remain competitive in the global marketplace is growing.
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47.FILIPINO HEROES
[ Posted: 12/16/01 ]
When we think of Filipino heroes,we think of heroes of the past such as Jose Rizal, Andres Bonifacio, Gabriela Silang, Miguel Malvar, Macario Sakay, Father Burgus, Zamora , Gomes, and many others. Even though many of us have forgotten them, they are still the first Filipino heroes. They gave up their lives for us. Today ,there are still heroes among us.
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46.Human Smuggling
[ Posted: 12/16/01 ]
For as long as there have been people there has been migration. People have always sought to move to better their lot. Many people have willingly sought new lives - many have had little option when faced with violence, terror or economic doom to seek a new life.
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45.PRIMER ON THE PESO-DOLLAR EXCHANGE RATE)
[ Posted: 12/16/01 ]
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas has prepared this primer to help opinion makers and the public understand the factors that influence fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate. The peso is presently undervalued and the BSP is confident that it will go back to its fundamental level when the pressures explained in this primer are resolved.
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44.PRESS RELEASE ON THE 1996 OVERSEAS FILIPINO WORKERS (OFWs)
[ Posted: 12/16/01 ]
The total number of Filipinos (OFW) who worked abroad during the period from April to September 1996 was estimated at 900 thousand persons. The figure was higher by 13.2 percent or 105 thousand from 795 thousand workers during the same period last year.
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43.A PROJECT OF THE COALITION AGAINST TRAFFICKING IN WOMEN (CATW) SUPPORTED BY THE FORD FOUNDATION
[ Posted: 12/16/01 ]
The Philippine Report is one of the five reports that comprise the CATW study, along with reports from Indonesia, Thailand, the United States and Venezuela. The goals of the project are the following: make connections between international female migration and patterns of female sexual exploitation in selected countries; document the harm of sex trafficking in the migrating process by documenting its health consequences, e.g., in the areas of sexual health, reproductive tract infections and sexually transmitted diseases, infertility, and other health consequences which are the sequelae to sexual violence; and, through education and advocacy, raise public awareness about the impact of sexual exploitation on women in the migrating process.
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42.Poem: AKO AY PILIPINO
[ Posted: 12/16/01 ]
PILIPINO akong may sariling dangal
At ito'y di kayang tumbasan ng dolyar
At saan mang dako ng sandaigdigan,
Karangalang ito'y handang ipaglaban.
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41.JAPAN ACCEPTS MORE PINOYS
[ Posted: 12/16/01 ]
Manila, May 18, 2001 - Japan is now the Philippines' third largest overseas worker employer, overtaking Taiwan where deployment of Filipino workers declined in the first quarter of this year, the Department of Labor said yesterday.
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40.GOVT's BIGGEST TASK IS PROTECTION OF OFW's (Overseas Filipino Workers) WHILE CREATING MORE JOBS
[ Posted: 12/16/01 ]
With some 7.2 million Filipinos working abroad, the Philippines is the second biggest labor exporting country in the world. Amid such changes as globalization and increasing international migration, this sending country is faced with new problems and tasks. The crucial question at this point is: what overseas employment policy is in place?
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39.Philippine media highlight garment worker's plight
[ Posted: 12/16/01 ]
The Philippine Daily Enquirer in yesterday's publication said "about 500 Filipinos on strike in a textile factory in Brunei are requesting assistance from the Philippine government to bring them back home and secure their safety after they protested their employer's failure to give them promised salary increases".
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38.Many OFWs Face Bleak Life After Migration
[ Posted: 12/16/01 ]
SINCE THE 1970s, overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) have been significant contributors to the Philippine economy, and have even been said to be a major reason why the country did not falter too much in the Asian Crisis.
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37.Enthusiasms: GMA Calls for OFW Vote Law
[ Posted: 12/16/01 ]
If Congress heeds President GMA, the seven million overseas Filipinos now disenfranchised by their absence from home can vote by May 2004.
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36.EDITORIAL: Overseas Filipino investors
[ Posted: 12/16/01 ]
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo reiterated her call to Filipinos living in Japan to "prove our mettle as a nation and as a people and start our economic rebirth wherever we are by thinking Filipino, buying Filipino and investing Filipino." This she said on September 15 during a gathering with representatives of Filipino organizations as part of her working visit here.
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35.More Japayukis leave Philippines for good life
[ Posted: 12/16/01 ]
MANILA, Sept. 3 - The number of Japayukis, or overseas Filipino workers in Japan, rose by 21 percent in the first half of the year, according to the De-partment of Labor and Employ-ment. This was the largest in-crease in overseas deployment to one country recorded among the top 10 OFW destinations, the DOLE said in a report.
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34.Let's save the family and the child
[ Posted: 12/16/01 ]
Like other families all over the world, the Filipino family is the basic unit of society. But its universality ends there. Unlike in most modern societies, the Filipino family is also the basic, and most functional, economic unit--not industrial or commercial corporations, small- or medium-scale enterprises, agricultural cooperatives or any other income-generating entity.
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33.PROFILE: Arroyo-Macapagal, Gloria
[ Posted: 12/16/01 ]
She is the daughter of the late President Diosdado Macapagal, a descendant of Lakandula and fondly known as the "poor boy from Lubao" in the province of Pampanga, who rose to the highest position in the land; and Dr. Evangelina Macaraeg-Macapagal of Binalonan, Pangasinan.
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33.Deployment of OFWs to Japan growing
[ Posted: 12/16/01 ]
Japan has now overtaken Taiwan as the third largest employer of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), according to the Department of Labor and Employment.
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32. US more Filipino nurses, other workers
[ Posted: 12/16/01 ]
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said today United States authorities have confirmed their big demand for Filipino workers like nurses, as well as teachers, and other professionals.
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31.More workers placed in Jan-Sept 2001
[ Posted: 12/16/01 ]
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has stepped up its efforts to facilitate employment and assist the unemployed, including displaced workers, find new jobs and alternative livelihood and income sources.
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30.Deployed OFWs in Japan rises by 21%
[ Posted: 12/16/01 ]
Some 5,847 workers, or over 21% more, were deployed in Japan in the first half of 2001, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said today.
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29.Mahmud: OVERSEAS CONTRACT WORKERS: NEW HEROES
[ Posted: 12/16/01 ]
Overseas job is not a longtime job. One must go home soon. You stay away from home too long and you are courting danger to yourself and your love ones. It's the unusual and abnormal pressures at workplace e.g. rascal gangs in Papua New Guinea, and the rascal employers elsewhere, that endangers you. And my family left behind? They are exposed to the danger at home front without you to defend them. They must learn, however, to be strong -willed particularly the missus to complement your resolve to eventually survive the temporary separation.
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28.Children of the Streets
[ Posted: 12/16/01 ]
Collection of pictures.
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27.How Filipino Are You?
[ Posted: 12/16/01 ]
In order to discover your true ethnicity and to help you come to grips with your cultural heritage, answer each of the following questions honestly and truthfully.
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26.Country Reports on Human Rights Practices -2000
[ Posted: 12/16/01 ]
Violence and discrimination against women and abuse of children continued to be serious problems. Discrimination against indigenous people and Muslims persists. The law places restrictions on worker rights. Rural poverty is the major cause of the continuing child labor problem, which the Government has addressed only partially. Forced labor in the informal sector, the practice of using forced underage workers in domestic servitude, and forced child prostitution were problems. Trafficking in women and children was a serious problem.
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25.Taking From the Poor
[ Posted: 12/16/01 ]
Bin Laden’s operations in the Philippines may have been financed through charity scams
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24.'We Lead Perfectly Normal Lives'
[ Posted: 12/16/01 ]
TIME Asia talks to computer hackers Eyestrain and Hiiro
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23.How Bin Laden Set Up Shop in Southeast Asia
[ Posted: 12/16/01 ]
Reports that the U.S. is considering expanding its operations against Al Qaida in places as far-flung as the Philippines and Malaysia underscore the global reach of Osama Bin Laden's networks.
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22.Homepage: The Cost Of Corruption
[ Posted: 12/16/01 ]
There I was, free at last. Or nearly. I had negotiated the horrors of Manila's Ninoy Aquino International Airport and had finally retrieved my luggage. Behind me was the grim arrivals corridor with the ever-expanding damp patches on the ceiling. I had managed to inch my way past an immigration officer who turned passport pages as if he were standing up to his neck in floodwater. Ahead was customs and beyond that the bedlam of the city. But between me and the exit was a Filipino struggling with a trolley loaded with cartons of electronic equipment — a DVD player, a TV set and a couple of other expensive items, all presumably purchased in Hong Kong. I tried to accelerate past him, thinking he was likely to be quizzed at length by the waiting customs officer. My maneuver didn't work — and, anyhow, it didn't matter. The man breezed through customs unchallenged after skillfully slipping the officer 500 pesos (about $10).
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21.NEWSMAKER: PRESIDENT ARROYO
[ Posted: 12/16/01 ]
Philippine President Gloria Arroyo discusses her country's battle with domestic and foreign terrorism.
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20.La Oposición Contra El Inglés En Filipinas
[ Posted: 12/16/01 ]
Para aquellos que han sido mal-instruidos en inglés además de haber sido deliberadamente engañados en cuanto a la historia de su propia patria por el régimen militar usense, la idea de tener a unas generaciones filipinas definitivamente en contra de la imposición del idioma inglés como medio de instrucción y como lengua oficial de su gobierno, puede resultar en una fuerte sorpresa o un trauma.
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19.Miguel López de Legazpi, Conquistador de Filipinas
[ Posted: 12/16/01 ]
Volviendo al tema de Filipinas y su primera historia, esta publicación menciona muchos datos y hechos resaltables. Además de las expediciones de Magallanes -descubridor de las Filipinas- y Elcano de 1519-1522, ninguna otra expedición había logrado asentarse en tan remotas tierras. Fue así que el rey Felipe II en 1559 siente el íntimo deseo de extender su dominio sobre aquellas privilegiadas islas.
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18.Papa Legatos Religionum Convocat
[ Posted: 12/16/01 ]
Summus Pontifex Ioannes Paulus II, sermone in area Petriana Civitatis Vaticanae habito, legatos omnium in orbe terrarum religionum convocavit, ut pro pace orarent. Sperat fore, ut praesertim Christianorum et musulmanorum legati die XXIV mensis Ianuarii Asisii, in urbe Sancti Francisci, congrediantur. Illis una edicendum, ne religio umquam causa sit odii aut violentiae. In hoc tempore generi humano necessarium esse, ut signa pacis videat et spei verba audiat. Auctore Summo Pontifice legati variarum religionum etiam anno millesimo nongentesimo octogesimo sexto Asisium convenerunt.
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17.EL ESPAÑOL ES BUENO PARA FILIPINAS
[ Posted: 12/16/01 ]
El cambio de presidencia en la República de Filipinas parece un buen punto de partida para corregir el lamentable estado al que los yanquis, primero directamente y luego por vías indirectas –de la que la constitución Cory es un conspicuo ejemplo-, han conseguido postrar a nuestro idioma en Filipinas.
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16.The Parol And the Belen
[ Posted: 12/16/01 ]
The star lantern (we call it parol) is the most popular Philippine christmas symbol. Wehreas belen is found only in churches and affluent homes, the star is everywhere. All that is needed to make a star lantern are ten long and five short pieces of bamboo, string, starch and rile paper. Rare is the ruralist who cannot make a star lantern; no hone is without one during Christmastide.
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15.Breve Historia De La Literatura Filipina
[ Posted: 12/16/01 ]
La primera interrogación que se presenta siempre viene a ser: ¿Cuál es la original literatura filipina? Es de comprender que esta confusión surja porque hay una literatura filipina en inglés, a raís del neocolonialismo de los WASP usenses. Existe otra literatura filipina que está en el actual idioma nacional a base del tagalo. También existen literaturas filipinas en idioma bisaya, en idioma ilocana y en, por lo menos, diez otras lenguas más.
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14.INS to report deportees and abscondees to FBI
[ Posted: 12/16/01 ]
IN a recent article in the Los Angeles Times, it was reported that the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) will submit a list of some 314,000 persons who have “disappeared” to avoid being deported. Under the new policy, the Los Angeles Times reported, the INS will relay the names of these missing deportees or abscondees to the National Crime Information Center (NCIC), a criminal database maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and frequently consulted by the police. This means that people who have been ordered deported (but never left the U.S.) could be caught and detained during routine traffic stops or even minor brushes with the law, INS Commissioner James Ziglar warned. “If you don’t want to be one of the guests in a detention center while we’re getting your documents together, you might just want to go home,” he advised deportees.
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13.WTC checks out
[ Posted: 12/16/01 ]
The Filipino Reporter this week started mailing checks of $1,000 each to families of Filipinos who perished in the World Trade Center attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
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12.U.S. traitor, using R.P. radio, hails Sept. 11 terror attacks Philippines
[ Posted: 12/16/01 ]
Through a Philippine radio, reclusive American chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer has broken years of silence to praise the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and call for the destruction of America.
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11. Parol: Christmas Lanterns of the Philippines
[ Posted: 12/16/01 ]
In the Filipino language Tagalog, a Chrismas lantern is called a parol. The parols collected here decorated various hotels, restaurants, stores, and homes on or near the small tourist island of Boracay, Philippines during Christmas 1997 and 1998. As variations on the traditional parol, they are hand-made from locally available resources like coconut trees, mussel shells, and plastic packaging.
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10.How are Philippine towns named?
[ Posted: 12/16/01 ]
Chinese annals from the Ming Dynasty referred to the islands south of China as Ma-i. Specifically the name referred to Mindoro but more generally to the Philippine archipelago. Before the advent of Spanish explorers, the group of islands located between 9 and 18 degrees latitude in the South China Sea had no common identity. It was Ferdinand Magellan who gave that group of islands the name "Islas de San Lazaro" because he arrived on Philippine shores on the feast of St. Lazarus.
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9.Forum on Philippine International Migration: Editorial Note
[ Posted: 12/15/01 ]
But is there any country at all on the globe where there are no Filipinos. I asked the Ambassador at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who had invited us women migrants from Europe - me and a Swiss colleague - to an inter-agency consultative meeting at the DFA after hearing our panel on women and migration during the recently concluded International Congress on Women under the auspices of the Centennial Commission early in December in Manila. Her answer was succinct as it was trite:"Probably not!"
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7.Should I Go or Should I Stay ?
[ Posted: 12/15/01 ]
These two opposing questions, I believe, are the most-asked by overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), most especially the newly-arrived and the over-staying ones. Oftentimes, these questions lie suspended somewhere at the back of their minds, popping out anytime yet momentarily relieving them of other unnecessary thoughts.
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6.One more Oz-Pinoy chases world boxing title in South Africa
[ Posted: 12/15/01 ]
Sydney, Australia --- A FILIPINO-Australia boxer joins super-bantamweight Arnel Barotillo in South Africa on March 17 for a crack at the world Junior-Flyweight championship.
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5.The Barong Tagalog
[ Posted: 12/15/01 ]
Few things can be as uniquely Filipino as the barong. But what are they? how are they made? where did their unusual style originate? and when are they used?
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4.INTERVIEW: Ricky Nierva - The Man Behind the Monsters of Monsters, Inc.
[ Posted: 12/15/01 ]
Say what?!?! Another interview?!?! Could it be that PinoyLife is actually trying to be a legitimate source of responsible journalism? No, not really but I just thought it was cool that a Pinoy named Ricky Nierva played a major role in designing the characters of Monsters, Inc. Thanks to Ricky Nierva and Karen Hartquist of Pixar for putting aside some time to make the interview possible.
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3.New Airport Security Law will Displace Filipinos
[ Posted: 12/14/01 ]
For the many Filipino Americans working at airports throughout the United States, this may be their last Christmas with the job theyÌve had for years.
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2.Filipinos plan food bazaar
[ Posted: 12/14/01 ]
The St Mary's Filipino community here will greet the onset of the yuletide season with a food bazaar and a wreath-decked church compound in Dubai, starting on Sunday.
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1.Globalization and Migration
[ Posted: 12/14/01 ]
Contemporary views on migration depart from the earlier premise of the push-pull theory on migration. According to this theory, people moved either because social and economic forces in the place of destination impelled them to do so, or because they were attracted to places of destination by one or more social and economic factors there.
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[ Posted: 12/17/01 ]
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