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Monday, March 30, 2009 |
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Over 121,000 RP jobs hit |
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12,000 overseas workers laid off–Labor official
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The economic crisis has cost over 121,000 Filipino workers their
jobs, pay cuts or reduced work loads, a government official
said on Sunday.
Between October last year and mid-March this
year, 11,574 permanently lost their jobs and 38,806 others were
temporarily laid off by Philippine-based companies, Labor
Undersecretary Rosalinda Baldoz told an economic forum in Clark, an
industrial enclave in Pampanga pro-vince north of Manila.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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Thaksin tells Thais to rise up
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BANGKOK: Fugitive former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra
urged supporters to rise up against the government as protesters
besieged the offices of the current premier for a third day.
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No hostage freed despite military pullout
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Islamic militants holding three Red Cross aid workers have not
released any of their hostages, despite promises of a pullout from
the Philippine military, authorities said on Sunday.
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NOTES & COMMENTS
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Conditional cash transfers: A program that works
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The most stubborn kind of poverty is that passed down from
generation to generation. The poorest Filipino households are those
whose heads have the barest formal education—or none at all. And
they transmit their poverty, as a kind of negative inheritance, to
their children and grandchildren.
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Palace dares Panlilio to file corruption raps vs. President
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MalacaÑang dared Pampanga Gov. Ed Panlilio to file corruption
charges against President Gloria Arroyo if he has enough evidence
against her.
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Obama to step into world stage
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WASHINGTON, D.C.: President Barack Obama will transfer the sweeping
ambition driving his young presidency to the world stage this week,
in a flurry of critical summits with world leaders in Europe, and an
onward trip to Turkey.
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World congress affirms RP as a global wellness center
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The 4th World Health Tourism Congress closed on Saturday with the
Tourism secretary’s aim, expressed last year when the Philippines
won the honor to host this year’s congress, achieved.
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