Remittances posted a strong start to 2018 with Filipinos working abroad sending home a total of $2.65 billion in January, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) reported on Thursday.

The result was up 10.8 percent from a year earlier, central bank data showed, beating the 7.9-percent expansion seen in December when personal remittances hit a record P3 billion.

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