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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
Remittances down 10.4 percent in Jan-April
Money sent home by Filipinos based in the United States has dropped for the first time in memory.
For the first four months of 2009, remittances from the US stood at $2.287 billion, a $300 million or 10.4 percent decline from the January-April 2008 inflow of ...
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Thursday, June 18th, 2009
MANILA, Philippines—Government and private sector efforts to provide jobs amid a global downturn helped pare down the unemployment rate to 7.5 percent in April from 8 percent in the same month last year.
The April figure was also slightly lower than that of January, when unemployment was reported at 7.7 percent.
Based ...
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
Realizing the massive popularity of former President Joseph Estrada and fearing his impact on the Middle East Filipino overseas workers, Malacañang, through Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto Romulo, was said not only to have ordered the different Philippine embassies in the Middle East not to entertain the former leader but also ...
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