100. Travails of an overstayer
[ Posted: 12/19/01 ]
More than a year after going underground and supporting her children by sending "lapsap"—or discarded goods—back home in the Philippines, Josephine "Josie" Morales decided to surrender herself to Hong Kong immigration authorities for overstaying her visa.
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99. MODERNISASYON AT TRADISYON
[ Posted: 12/19/01 ]
Handa ka na ba sa pagdating ng bagong milenyo? Ngayon pa lamang ay abalang-abla na ang marami sa paghahanda para sa nalalapit na taong 2000. Sa kabila ng mga alinlangan tungkol sa naghihintay sa atin sa susunod na siglo, ito’y nagsisilbing hudyat sa pagsilang ng mga inobasyon at tuklas sa makabagong kaalaman.
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98. JOKE: MI ULTIMO UBO
[ Posted: 12/19/01 ]
Adios, patria adorada, polluted na ang karsada
Perla del mar de trapiko, nuestro perdido tambutso
A darte voy a brownout, para ka na ring na-knock out
A fuera mas mainit, taong bayan nagngingitngit
Tambien por ti la diera, para tayong nasa giyera.
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97. NORA, RANDY WOW ERAP FANS IN KL
[ Posted: 12/19/01 ]
Kuala Lumpur, Nov. 17, 1998 - Thousands of Filipino Overseas Workers (OFW) jumped and sang with the Philippines' top entertainers brought along by President Joseph Estrada as a special surprise treat during his dialogue with the Malaysian Pinoy community at the Legend Hotel.
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96. Nurse's victory is cause for celebration
[ Posted: 12/19/01 ]
There was one brilliant development a few weeks ago, which was in stark contrast to the miserable weather we have been having lately in this country. I refer to the news relayed to us by Ms. Vangie Cayongcat, the Embassy's frontline person on Assistance to Filipino Nationals, about the acquittal of a newly-arrived Filipino nurse who was charged with indecent assault by an ungrateful patient.
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95. WORK, EQUALITY INSPIRE FILIPINOS TO LIVE IN AUSTRIA
[ Posted: 12/19/01 ]
VIENNA - An impressive number of Filipino nationals, most of whom are in their late 20s and mid 30s, have migrated to and settled for good with a much better economic and socio-political lifestyle in this magnificent city of Mozart, sausages, emblematic cows' milk and the purest and most wholesome drinking water around the world. (One may bring back to mind the well-known Vienna sausage, the Alpine milk, and the Blue Danube classical piece). This was my observation as soon as I arrived at the Rosen Hotel here as a guest with 33 other people from the United States, most of whom are Filipinos.
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94. HELPING OFWs COPE WITH LONELINESS
[ Posted: 12/19/01 ]
Separation from a loved one by force of circumstances can be devastating. It triggers an overwhelming sense of helplessness that can lead to serious ailments. More than the psychological burden of missing someone, overseas workers are usually faced with a broken marriage after months or even years of separation due to work.
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93. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CALL OF THE WIRED - RP's IT TALENT
[ Posted: 12/19/01 ]
WHEN JONATHAN CHURCH arrived in Manila last year, he noticed something familiar about the city. Amid all the chaos, noise and dirt of the Philippines' capital, there were constant reminders of home: On almost every block, Church spotted a McDonald's, a Dunkin' Donuts, a Kenny Rogers Roasters outlet. "It made me feel more comfortable than if I had been in KL, Bangkok, or Bangalore," says Church, the head of operations for United States software developer Enterworks.
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92. SAUDI TELLS GMA NOT TO WORRY
[ Posted: 12/19/01 ]
Saudi Arabia assured President Arroyo on Wednesday that it would help Filipino workers there who may want to be repatriated in the event of war in the Middle East as a result of the terrorist attacks in the United States.
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91. RP SEAMEN REMIT $318 M IN 4 MONTHS, LAST YEAR'S FIGURE EXCEEDED
[ Posted: 12/19/01 ]
Filipino seafarers on board ocean-going vessels remitted over $318 million (about P16.2 billion) in the four month period from January to April this year higher by 8.82 percent than the $292 million that they remitted during the same period last year. Labor Secretary Patricia A. Sto. Tomas said some 200,000 Filipino seafarers are working on board international vessels. She said this represents 20 percent of actively employed seafarers in ocean-going ships.
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90. PINOY FATALITIES IN WTC NOW NUMBER 19
[ Posted: 12/19/01 ]
The Philippine Consulate in New York City reported Monday that the number of fatalities known to be of Filipino descent in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center (WTC) last week has increased from 14 to 19.
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89. OFW, natapilok sa NAIA, namatay
[ Posted: 12/19/01 ]
ISANG 26-anyos na overseas Filipino worker (OFW) ang nasawi makara-ang maaksidenteng matapilok at mabagok ang ulo sa sementadong daanan sa Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA).
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88. 2002 budget is anti-poor, says opposition senator
[ Posted: 12/19/01 ]
OPPOSITION Senator Edgardo Angara branded as "anti-poor and anti-development" the 2002 national budget, which the Senate approved on third reading Tuesday night, saying it does not have enough allocation to agriculture development and social services.
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87. RP urges Hong Kong not to cut Filipina maids' pay
[ Posted: 12/19/01 ]
HONG KONG – Labor Secretary Patricia Sto. Tomas on Wednesday urged the Hong Kong government not to cut the salaries of foreign domestic helpers in the territory.
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86. Absentee voting, yes; overseas campaigning, no
[ Posted: 12/19/01 ]
TO BE fair, Congress should not allow candidates to go overseas to campaign if the absentee-voting bill covering at least seven million Filipinos abroad is passed into law this year.
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85. Poll says fewer Filipinos are poor, but life is worse
[ Posted: 12/19/01 ]
FEWER Filipinos now describe themselves as poor, according to a Social Weather Stations survey. That's the good news. The bad news is a majority of Filipinos continue to say that they are poor and that their quality of life worsened in the last 12 months. They also expect the economy to worsen in the next year.
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84. YMCA's Woman of Courage
[ Posted: 12/17/01 ]
Unperturbed be her circumstances as the lone female and foreign worker hired by the Pusan-based YMCA, this courageous lady chose to trail all odds and adversities in helping distressed compatriots and in pushing for fair and just settlement of their grievances.
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84. Returning OFWs to get 'Pamaskong Handog'
[ Posted: 12/17/01 ]
Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), dubbed as modern day heroes, returning to the country for Christmas vacation will once again be treated in this year's Pamaskong Handog celebration November 28-December 29.
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83. Buhay OFW:Hard times and good times
[ Posted: 12/17/01 ]
I was born in a poor family and native to the small village of Bito-on, in Dumanji, Cebu. I am the eldest of eight children. My father is an ordinary fisherman while my mother is a plain housewife.
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83. What do you like most about Filipino Christmas?
[ Posted: 12/17/01 ]
Since migrating to the U.S. 26 years ago, I deepy regret not having spent Christmas in the Philippines.
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82. A bias for America
[ Posted: 12/17/01 ]
A TOTAL of 4.6 billion dollars in economic benefits; 92.3 million dollars in defense and security assistance till fiscal year 2002; 1.49 billion dollars in economic assistance and trade benefits; 246 million dollars commitments and offers from international financial institutions; and 2.6 billion dollars worth of signed agreements in various fields including information technology, infrastructure, and services and trade.
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81. Still the American dream?
[ Posted: 12/17/01 ]
The September 11 tragedy dented that glorious image. What was once the mighty and invincible country was struck at its very heart. The impact of that event echoed in the rest of the world.
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80. Highlights of the Survey on Overseas Filipinos (SOF) 1999
[ Posted: 12/17/01 ]
OVERSEAS FILIPINO WORKERS EDGED UP AT 1 MILLION
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79. Sulatan ng Bayan Mga Sulat ng Taong 2000
[ Posted: 12/17/01 ]
happy new year sa inyong lahat, lalong lalo na sa staff ng site na ito. sana huwag masyadong mabuysit ang taong 2001 sa mga gagong pulitiko.
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78. Suddenly, layoffs loom: Job security rises rapidly to rank among top concerns
[ Posted: 12/17/01 ]
The question of job security is creeping back into the consciousness of EE Times readers in the United States. After several years of robust employment figures, and even though U.S. unemployment among engineers remained very low as of early fall, EE Times' "Worldwide Salary & Opinion Survey" respondents feel edgier and more nervous about their prospects. The result is that job security/unemployment has moved up from No. 6 on last year's list of career concerns to No. 3 this year as 39 percent of respondents think their job status has deteriorated in the past year.
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77. Women's Struggles And Female Migration Into Japan In The 1980s-1990s
[ Posted: 12/17/01 ]
Unlike in the United States and Western Europe, immigration was not a public concern in Japan until recently. However, the issue has increasingly been drawing the attention of scholars, industrialists, policy-makers, human rights activists, and ordinary citizens as the number of immigrant workers has increased rapidly since the mid-1980s. Among those immigrant workers are a large number of women working in the sex and entertainment industry, mainly from other Asian countries. The proposed dissertation is to study the female immigration to Japan which has been largely ignored or treated as a secondary issue, especially in economic studies.
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76. The Myth of the Controllability of Difference: Labour Migration, Transnational Communities and State Strategies in East Asia
[ Posted: 12/17/01 ]
To speak of transnational communities implies taking the ‘national’ as a given.The concept of transnationalism only has meaning in a world divided up into nation-states. This leads to two paradoxes, one global, the other peculiar to the Asia Pacific region. The global paradox is that transnationalism is a relatively new, emerging paradigm, whose discourses are clearly and consciously linked to globalisation–a process which weakens the nation-state. The Asia Pacific paradox is that the nation-state as a dominant political form is, in most countries, quite recent and often still in the process of formation. Young post-colonial states (albeit often with roots in antiquity) are trying to define national belonging and identity in a context not experienced by older nation-states in their period of formation: the context of globalisation, mobile populations and erosion of national boundaries.
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75. Violence Against Asian/Pacific Women: History and Current Reality
[ Posted: 12/17/01 ]
Since 1992, I have been working on research and advocacy work on Chongshindae/ military "comfort women"(the Japanese Imperial military sex slaves coercively or deceitfully drafted during the Pacific War by Japan) in Korea, Japan, the United States and Hawaii in cooperation with the Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Sexual Slavery by Japan and other supporting organizations in the United States cities such as New York, Washington, D. C, Chicago and Los Angeles. The issue of military "comfort women" has once again made me look at violence against Asian/Pacific women in its totality, that is, in historical, political, economic and social dimensions, by relating it to the structures of colonial, military state, race, and class oppression.
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74. Speech of H.E. Cesar B. Bautista
[ Posted: 12/17/01 ]
The Southeast Asian economy remains to be one of the fastest growing regional economies in the world despite the discontinuities that took place during the l997-l998 financial crisis and the political turbulence that followed in a number of countries. Consider these GDP Rates: 4.6% in l999, 6.7% in 2000 and a 4% estimate for 200l.
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73. Melvyn Binaley Danguilan Escueta
[ Posted: 12/17/01 ]
I first met Mel way back in the early 50s when we stayed with his family for a week in San Francisco. I always considered Mel, a year older then me, to be my older brother. Our great-grand-mothers were sisters, as well as descendants of the head-hunting Gaddangs from Nueva Viscaya in the upper Cagayan Valley of northern Luzon. We went to see the movie "Francis the Talking Mule," and I remembered he commented that it would be fun to be in the military.
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72. The Diversity of Filipinos in the United States
[ Posted: 12/17/01 ]
The underlying theme of this unit is contemporary immigration which will focus on the Filipino experiences. Since this topic is a content subject usually taught in Social Studies or History classes, this unit may also be used by the content History or Social Studies teachers in the Bilingual program classes or in grade level Social Studies or History classes where most of the students are non-native English speakers.
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71. The Immigration Myth.
[ Posted: 12/17/01 ]
Americans like immigrants as individuals-the decent, hardworking Korean grocer on the corner, the Russian computer programmer who lives down the street or the Filipino nurse who works at the local hospital. But as a nation we don’t seem to think much of immigration in general.
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70. APEC's Impact on the Asia-Pacific Region
[ Posted: 12/17/01 ]
The following is by no means meant to be a complete account of APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation). Our sole aim here is to single out a few areas that are affected by APEC and to highlight some of the impacts. There is a lot of literature available about APEC and free trade in general.
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69. JOIN THE FIGHT TO DEFEND AND EXPAND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
[ Posted: 12/17/01 ]
We are Asian veterans of the Third World Strikes and the struggle to establish ethnic studies. Many of us had come to understand the fact that the U.S. had always been, and continues to be, a thoroughly racist and sexist society, when we had proudly stood shoulder to shoulder with Black, Latino and Native American (as well as progressive white) students in the fight for equality and quality in education. We are compelled by the current attacks on affirmative action to issue this statement to address why we feel Asians should support the fight to defend and expand affirmative action.
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68. STRUGGLE FOR LIFE IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBALIZATION
[ Posted: 12/17/01 ]
The struggle for life in the context of Globalization obviously implies the threat globalization poses to all life and its fullness. The new face of the violation of human rights needs clarification. Why New? What is new? Definitely, the fact that we talk about the new face of the violation of human rights, a new analysis of the globalized world and a corresponding new strategy are called for. Out of this process emerges a new historical consciousness.
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67. Philippines: ECONOMIC TRENDS AND OUTLOOK
[ Posted: 12/17/01 ]
Since July 1997, the Asian financial crisis has engulfed the Philippines and many of its neighbors. The Philippine peso has depreciated 35% against the U.S. dollar since mid-1997. The financial system is under stress from the peso's depreciation and higher interest rates.
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66. 1997 Country Profile: Philippines
[ Posted: 12/17/01 ]
The Philippines is an archipelago of more than 7,100 islands with a total land area of 298,170 sq. m. It is located in the tropical zone of Southeastern Asia between the Philippine Sea and South China Sea. It has an estimated population of 74 million, the majority of whom are Christian Malays (91.5%) which makes it the only Christian country in Asia. The Philippines won independence on June 12, 1898 after three hundred years of Spanish rule, but only to fall under US control.
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65. Can't Make It to the USA, Try the Middle East
[ Posted: 12/17/01 ]
The Middle East has become the best but reluctant alternative for Filipinos seeking employment elsewhere.
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64. Configuring the Filipino Diaspora in the United States
[ Posted: 12/17/01 ]
An article by one Blanche d'Alpuget in the New York Times Book Review on Jessica Hagedorn's novel, Dogeaters, may have contributed to reviving an old impression of Filipinos as "dogeaters" inhabiting an irredeemably debauched society where greed, corruption, and chaos rule. Hagedorn is, however, an American author who has never eaten dogmeat. A mestiza with Spanish, German, and Malayan blood, she spent her years growing up in California as part of the "Filipino national identity movement" (Pajaron 20) in the sixties.
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63. The Filipino Americans
[ Posted: 12/17/01 ]
The Filipino Americans: Their History, Culture, and Traditions by Veltisezar Bautista brings to life the vivid story about a people's courage, real struggles, and determination in pursuit of the American Dream.
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62. 100 Best Things About Being Pinoy
[ Posted: 12/17/01 ]
FROM the 1896 Revolution to the first Philippine Republic, the Commonwealth period, and the EDSA Revolt, however, some things never change. Like the classics, things irresistibly Pinoy mark us for life. They're the indelible stamp of our identity, the undeniable affinity that binds us like twins. They celebrate the good in us, the best of our culture and the infinite possibilities we are all capable of. Some are so self-explanatory you only need mention them for fellow Pinoys to swoon or drool.
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61. Plight of Overseas Contract Worker - Position Paper - from Filipinos on the Internet
[ Posted: 12/17/01 ]
Of course, we cannot simply eradicate this horror by bringing all our OCWs back home and placing a ban on future domestic-help deployment. We have to accept the painful reality that our nation cannot provide for their needs just yet. We also have to confront the sad fact that, for the time being, the Philippines will remain the odd-country-out in Asia -- not quite on the same economic footing as most of the nations in the region.
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60. Filipino Export Labour - Modern Day Slaves
[ Posted: 12/17/01 ]
Between 2.5 and 3.5 million Filipinos work in over 140 countries. More than 2,000 are in overseas jails, two were beheaded in Saudi Arabia, one was hanged in Singapore, thousands suffer slavery and abuse. What are the Philippines and the world doing about it? Lia Timson reports.
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59. ILO:Emigration pressures and structural change: Case study of the Philippines
[ Posted: 12/17/01 ]
For the purposes of the this paper, there are two dimensions of labour emigration that need to be pegged down with finality of numbers: first, the regular outflow of labour in net terms from the Philippines; and second, the total stock of Filipino migrants outside the country at any point in time. Both numbers play a crucial role in strategising international migration in the medium term. Of course, the two numbers are directly related.
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58. 155 Ways To Tell If You're Really Pinoy
[ Posted: 12/17/01 ]
1.You point with your lips.
2. You eat using your hands and have it down to technique.
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57. Migration as a factor in social transformation in East Asia
[ Posted: 12/17/01 ]
International migration is an important factor in social, cultural and political change in East Asian. The paper discusses both emigration and immigration countries, using the Philippines as an example for the former, and Japan and Malaysia for the latter. It is argued that population mobility is an important element of the cross-border flows and transnational networks that constitute globalization. Understanding of specific patterns in East Asia requires linking migration to experiences of colonialism, post-colonialis,, nation-state formation, and economic change. The key question is where East Asia will follow the western experience of labour migration leading to unplanned settlement and multicultural societies, and in the long run to modification of models of national identity and citizenship. There are important historical and political differences between western and Asian experiences which make it hard to predict such developments. Nonetheless there is already considerable evidence that governments are losing control of migration and that unplanned settlement and community formation is occurring. This makes it important to intensify research on social, cultural and political aspects of mobility, to inform more realistic policies on migration and settlement.
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56. The Lucrative Business That is Labor Export
[ Posted: 12/17/01 ]
The Labour Export Program (LEP) of the Philippine government can be considered as its most elaborated program that exploits the Filipino people in every step of the way by regarding them as commodities for export for much needed dollars.
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55. Have You Been to Bat'ha?
[ Posted: 12/17/01 ]
Bat'ha is more popularly known as the "Filipino Market" having been overtaken by Filipinos throughout the years and has become their activity center on holidays in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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54. P1.4-B BLOOD MONEY, BINAYARAN NG SAUDI PRINCE OFW, nakaligtas sa life sentence
[ Posted: 12/17/01 ]
NAKALIGTAS sa posibleng habambuhay na pagkakabilanggo ang isang overseas Filipino worker (OFW) sa kasong homicide matapos na palaring masagip ng prinsipe ng Saudi Arabia sa pamamagitan ng pagbabayad ng P1.4-billion "blood money" sa pamilya ng napaslang nitong Bombay.
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53.11 Filipino-Australian women receive honors
[ Posted: 12/17/01 ]
ELEVEN outstanding Filipino-Australian women recently received awards of recognition for their contributions to community service in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and the Eden-Monaro region of New South Wales.
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52. Arming of priests rejected
[ Posted: 12/17/01 ]
MATI, Davao Oriental -- The Vatican's ambassador to the Philippines has frowned upon suggestions that priests assigned in areas of conflict in Mindanao should be armed.
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51. 3,984 OFWs deployed in Saudi Arabia
[ Posted: 12/17/01 ]
Some 3,984 more overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) opted to work in Saudi Arabia in 2001's first eight months, maintaining the Kingdom's position as the number one OFW destination, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said today.
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