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Links for 2007-09-29

By deebeedee | Published: September 29, 2007

Pop star blacklisted for a year after ‘terminating’ 21 maids – Times Online Canto-pop singer Jackie Cheung is dubbed “The Terminator” for firing numerous Filipina maids.

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The Overseas Class

By deebeedee | Published: April 23, 2006

They nurse the sick in California, drive fuel trucks in Iraq, sail cargo ships through the Panama Canal and cruise ships through the Gulf of Alaska. They pour sake for Japanese salarymen and raise the children of Saudi businessmen.

Thus starts the LA Times article on the Philippines’ most successful export: its workers.
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OFW TV

By danieldyl | Published: February 19, 2005

An e-mail touting a new TV channel/website called OFW-TV was sent to me this morning. I don’t qualify as an “Overseas Filipino Worker” but I find some of the site’s contents, which contain lots of video, interesting to watch.
(I should set-up a del.icio.us account for stuff like this, shouldn’t I? But then again, I [...]

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