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Asean migration pact seen to push low-skilled workers into further risk

by JEREMAIAH M. OPINIANO
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MAKATI CITY?LESS protected under an international convention, domestic helpers and low-skilled temporary migrant workers still couldn?t find solace within a pact among Asean countries, analysts pointed out recently.

Advocates say this omission by member-countries in a non-binding declaration on migrant workers? protection by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations could push millions of transient workers into accepting more dirty and demeaning jobs and weak bargaining positions.

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Chamber of Commerce for OFWs pushed

by KRISTY ANNE C. TOPACIO-MANALAYSAY and JEREMAIAH M. OPINIANO
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MANILA?PEOPLE who built their business from working abroad are moving to form a Chamber of Commerce to lure more overseas Filipino workers into becoming entrepreneurs.

?Instead of going to greedy local businessmen, fellow OFWs can go to themselves and make
arrangements to supply some raw materials, or even provide discounts to some of their products to fellow OFW entrepreneurs,? businessman Miguel Bolos told the OFW Journalism Consortium?.

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Gov?t says open to redeploy Pinoys not ready to return

by KRISTY ANNE C. TOPACIO-MANALAYSAY
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MANILA — SUCCESSFULLY building a business after working abroad, Alberto Limbo Perez still couldn?t be pinned down in his own country. Luckily for him, a recently-built government center can give him that chance.

?Who would reject the opportunity of working abroad?? the 47-year-old Perez said in Tagalog. ?Earnings from abroad are a big help to meet our needs. It?s a waste to let the opportunity pass.?

This comes from a man whose seven-year-old work abroad is being poured on a house with swimming pool at a cost of P4 million, almost half of what the Philippine government spent on a building to mold Filipinos like him to either stay home for good or go back to migrant work.

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Charity group founder?s woes hobble OFW philanthropy

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By JEREMAIAH M. OPINIANO
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CALOOCAN CITY — ON A side street of a biscuit factory here the smell of spoiled food, re-used cooking oil, murky wastewater, and sweat of a hundred laborers mixes with the fluttering haze of Maria Luisa Tayco?s dreams of migrant giving.

It is here where Tayco, recipient of the Singaporean community?s Golden Samaritan award, faces up to the reality of life after 14 years of working near Raffles? CenterMSOffice and seven years of charity work on Bayanihan Centre in Pasir Panjang Road.

It is here where Tayco, who was hailed by a television show on New Year?s Eve as one of the best people the Philippines has, decided to sell her kidney.
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