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[Summary] => Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) are free to push through with their reported plan to stop for one day their remittances to their families here to protest the multibillion-peso pork barrel fund scam, Malacañang said yesterday.
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[Title] => GMA vows economic reforms
[Summary] => President Arroyo yesterday assured foreign investors and fund managers that her administration would continue reforms in the economy as well as efforts to eradicate corruption, attract more business, and shield the country from global challenges.
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[Title] => Report: HK singer Jacky Cheung blacklisted for going through 21 Filipino maids
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[Title] => Pinoy, Indon maids march in Hong Kong to demand wage increase
[Summary] => HONG KONG (AP) — About 500 Filipino and Indonesian maids working in Hong Kong marched through downtown streets yesterday to demand a wage increase.
"Stop modern slavery! Wage increase now!" read placards held by the domestic workers who marched from a downtown square to Hong Kong’s government headquarters.
The protesters demanded the government scrap a 400 Hong Kong dollars ($51) tax on employers that was introduced in 2003 when Hong Kong’s economy was in recession, and raise their minimum monthly salary to the original level of HK$3,670 ($471).
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[Title] => Filipino maids in Hong Kong demand GMA ouster
[Summary] => HONG KONG (AP) — About 60 Filipino migrant workers protested yesterday outside the Philippine consulate general in Hong Kong, denouncing their nation’s president for declaring a state of emergency and demanding she step down.
"Oust, oust GMA!" yelled the protesters outside the consulate’s office, referring to President Arroyo. "Oust the US-Arroyo regime!" read another placard.
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[Title] => Filipino domestic helpers in HK rally against WTO
[Summary] => HONG KONG (AP) — Hundreds of domestic helpers from the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand and Nepal working in Hong Kong protested yesterday against the World Trade Organization, denouncing it as favoring big business over rank-and-file workers.
One protester dressed up as the devil, holding a sickle that said "WTO." Others posed as indigenous people, donning black masks, straw-like dresses and holding shields with the letters "WTO" crossed out.
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[Title] => GMA to visit Pinay maids in HK
[Summary] => President Arroyo is due to arrive in Hong Kong today on a lightning visit to meet overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) there in what critics say is a bid to shore up support for next year’s elections.
Mrs. Arroyo will be in Hong Kong for just three hours to speak to the Filipino expatriates, mostly women working as live-in maids who number about 128,000, Philippine consular official Domingo Lucenario said yesterday.
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[Title] => Seoul also bans entry of Pinoy workers
[Summary] => South Korea has imposed a ban on the entry of overseas Filipino workers in the wake of a similar ban now in effect in Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Taiwan and the United Arab Emirates because of SARS.
This developed as the Arroyo administration protested a new classification for the Philippines in the list of countries affected by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
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[Title] => 900 Pinoys denied work in HK after government ban
[Summary] => HONG KONG (AFP) – Some 900 people from the Philippines have been denied work in Hong Kong after President Gloria Arroyo’s decision to suspend the deployment of Filipina maids to the city to protest wage cuts, a Filipino workers group said Wednesday.
"Since the implementation of the ban on contract processing on March 10 by President Arroyo, there have been more than 900 would-be migrant workers denied contracts to work in Hong Kong," said Eman Villanueva, secretary-general of United Filipinos in Hong Kong.
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EMAN VILLANUEVA
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"Stop modern slavery! Wage increase now!" read placards held by the domestic workers who marched from a downtown square to Hong Kong’s government headquarters.
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One protester dressed up as the devil, holding a sickle that said "WTO." Others posed as indigenous people, donning black masks, straw-like dresses and holding shields with the letters "WTO" crossed out.
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Mrs. Arroyo will be in Hong Kong for just three hours to speak to the Filipino expatriates, mostly women working as live-in maids who number about 128,000, Philippine consular official Domingo Lucenario said yesterday.
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"Since the implementation of the ban on contract processing on March 10 by President Arroyo, there have been more than 900 would-be migrant workers denied contracts to work in Hong Kong," said Eman Villanueva, secretary-general of United Filipinos in Hong Kong.
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