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...depiction of the Philippines' experience with labor emigration captures what I have seen in many parts of the country. Most of the newly constructed concrete homes you find in 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, "A nurse, so I can go abroad." The outflow of Filipino workers is about supply and demand, globalisation and economic growth. I just hope that this phenomenon is temporary. Lisa Crisostomo, Rillaar, Belgium...
...depiction of the Philippines' experience with overseas migration captures what I have seen in many parts of the country. Most of the newly constructed concrete homes you find in 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...
...Even if the BJP and a coalition win the election in May, they will be hard pressed to find multilateral support for military intervention. The United Nations and most developed states will not support a repeat of Bush-like bellicosity, especially when it involves Saudi-financed Pakistan. In any case, China will most certainly block a Security Council vote to invade its closest partner in the region. And India is unlikely to go it alone with the risk of nuclear...
...Somalia's pirates demonstrated the growth in their sophistication and capability last month when they seized the giant Saudi oil tanker Sirius Star some 450 nautical miles out at sea - well beyond the pirates' previous range. One of the men involved in that raid, 24-year-old Mohamed Dashishle described a distinctly low-tech operation, though organized by men he said had once trained in the Somali coast guard. One of the pirates' "mother ships" spotted the tanker and deployed three small skiffs to surround it. Dashishle told TIME that the pirates simply had to brandish their rocket-propelled grenade...
...Catholic Church hierarchy butting heads with gay rights activists. But this particular French-sponsored proposal, which has the backing of all 27 European Union countries, calls for an end to the practice of criminalizing and punishing people for their sexual orientation. Most dramatically, in some countries, including Iran and Saudi Arabia, homosexuality can be punished by death...