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MEGA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF OVERSEAS FILIPINOS: THEIR FAMILIES, FRIENDS AND PARTNERS "BUILDING THE GLOBAL FILIPINO NATION FOR EFFECTIVE GOVERNANCE" May 8-11, 2008 University of Makati, Makati, Philippines Convenors of the Conference: The convenors of Global Filipino Nation, an unincorporated association of leading organizations and leaders onshore and offshore, including those in academe, think tanks, peasant groups, labor, media, grassroots organizers, business, banking and investments,… Continue

In today’s global scenario, the race for survival is widely perceived as an inevitable crisis each man has to wrestle. And the common denominator behind this sorry reality is more likely economic in nature. Stability has become a proverbial question not only among those countries who struggle for a stalwart economic order, but also those who have ever since been known as “Giants in Economy

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A Closer Look at the Filipino Diaspora

By Manuel `Bong' A. Amora
Inquirer

Prologue

About 15 years ago, a Filipina school teacher named Tonya worked as a chambermaid for a budget hotel in Taipei and, on her days off, as a baby-sitter for a Br

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