Fwd: [IMO] Policy objective: To make overseas employment a career option and not a matter of necessity

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Date: March 31, 2009 12:28:54 PM GMT+03:00
Subject: [IMO] Policy objective: To make overseas employment a career option and  not a matter of necessity

IMO Release 1170

Policy objective: To make overseas employment a career option and not a
matter of necessity

It remains a policy objective of the government to build a strong domestic
economy so that working overseas will just be a career option for
Filipinos and not a matter of necessity.

Deputy Presidential spokesperson Lorelei Fajardo said President Gloria
Macapagal-Arroyo has repeatedly stated this policy objective which
explains why she is working very hard to create more employment
opportunities even before the onset of the prevailing global economic
crisis.

Fajardo stressed this point in her press briefing Monday afternoon partly
in answer to questions on how the government is dealing with the insulting
comments by writer Chip Tsao who called the Philippines a "nation of
servants" in his column in the recent issue of the HK Magazine.

This policy goal, the palace official said, deserves to be recognized and
appreciated so that later, Filipinos don't need to be domestic helpers in
another country.

Fajardo emphasized however, that service, even domestic service, is a
noble task and if Tsao says service is a Filipino trait, "then we are
proud to claim such because to serve even in the humblest capacity, I
think, is a noble task. And we are proud of our Filipino workers."

Fajardo said the government does not want to dignify Tsao by giving
importance to his racist statements but said Filipinos in general,
including herself, feel insulted by his comments for which he should
apologize.

Many Filipinos, including Chinese Filipinos, have taken issue with the
article and are strongly demanding a public apology from Tsao, who is now
under pressure to do so after his HK Magazine editors made their own
apology. (PND)

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