Word: filipino
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...knew I was at the Sundance of lore when the Filipino man renting my hotel manager’s basement drove me the hour to Sundance Resort one day because no other option was remotely affordable. I knew I was at Sundance when the busboy, who didn’t speak much English asked if I liked “The Informers”—because...
THRILLER musical on the way; 1,500 Filipino prisoners headed to Broadway...
...rural areas are built from remittances; people point to the homes and describe them as "from Saudi," "from Dubai," "from Italy," etc. When you ask a youngster what she dreams of being, she will say, "I want to be a nurse, so I can go abroad." The outflow of Filipino workers is about supply and demand. It is about globalization and economic growth. I just hope that this phenomenon is temporary and our country does not find it has been forced to destroy the fabric of family life. Lisa Crisostomo, Rillaar, Belgium...
...rural areas are built from remittances; people point to the homes and describe them as "from Saudi," "from Dubai," "from Italy," etc. When you ask a youngster what she dreams of being, she will say "I want to be a nurse, so I can go abroad." The outflow of Filipino workers is about supply and demand. It is about globalisation and economic growth. I just hope that this phenomenon is temporary and our country does not find it has been forced to destroy the fabric of family life. Lisa Crisostomo, RILLAAR, BELGIUM...
...company is focusing its early investments on East Africa, an area with vast amounts of underground heat and little means to tap it. The company plans to start exploratory drilling next year to build a geothermal plant in Djibouti. In July, the government of the Philippines awarded a Filipino-Icelandic consortium exploration rights to half of Biliran Island in the country's south. Twenty years ago, three boreholes were drilled on Biliran and then abandoned when the underground liquid at the other end of the drill was found to be too acidic. Since then, the industry has learned...