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TABUK CITY, Kalinga, April 23 (PIA) -- Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) from the province, working in Hongkong had their own celebration of the 17th Kalinga Day last April 15 that brought closer solidarity to the Kalinga OFW community there.

Provincial Board Member Gelacio Bongat, who was invited as guest speaker, reported there are at least 400 registered OFWs from Kalinga employed in various jobs in the host island state.

In his message, Bongat exhorted the OFWs as heroes of the province for their great contribution to the economy of Kalinga and the country through their regular remittances.
In a recent report of the Banko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), remittances from OFWs accounted as one of the major sources of dollar reserve for the economy. Read more...

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NEW YORK—Loida Nicolas Lewis, national chair of a Filipino-American good governance organization, has called on Filipinos to rally in front of China’s global embassies and consulates on May 11 to protest China’s aggressive encroachments on the Philippines’ Scarborough Shoal.

Among the first to respond to the call are Filipino organizations in Hong Kong, Canada and Australia.

China considers Scarborough Shoal, located 124 nautical miles from the Philippines’ Zambales province, to be its “inherent territory” even though it lies more than 500 nautical miles from the nearest China port of Hainan. Read more...