Links for 2007-09-29
Saturday, September 29th, 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.
Posts Tagged ‘ofw’
The Overseas Class
Sunday, April 23rd, 2006They 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.
Compelling photos also accompany the article.
Also, peep this related Wired article from 2002, One Nation, Overseas, which calls the Philippines “the forerunner of tomorrow’s distributed economy, supplying nurses, teachers, techies, and sailors to the global village.”
OFW TV
Saturday, February 19th, 2005An 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 probably shouldn’t yet, lest my main blog content would become totally sparse. Just been so busy.)