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                    [Title] => What do Filipinos and Mexicans have in common?
                    [Summary] => What do the Filipinos and Mexicans have in common? Both are afflicted with AIDS or Acute Income Deficiency Syndrome.


There are so many similarities between the Mexican people and our kababayans in the Philippines. Like their Philippine counterparts, the Mexican government officials just condone the thousands of people (some carrying babies) to peddle most anything from religious statues to food, rugs and blankets just to make a buck.
[DatePublished] => 2002-02-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133361 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1099685 [AuthorName] => A VOICE FROM AMERICA By Ernie D. Delfin [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 101714 [Title] => Let there be brain gain, not brain drain - A VOICE FROM AMERICA by Ernie D. Delfin [Summary] => For several decades now, the Philippines has been suffering the so-called "brain drain" phenomenon as thousands of educated and ambitious Pinoys dare to leave their homeland to venture to other countries in search of better opportunities.

And many have succeeded. Statistics show that there are now between five and seven million Filipinos living outside the Philippines. Is this figure included in the 75 million population of the Philippines? If it were, then that is almost 10 percent of the entire country’s population!
[DatePublished] => 2001-04-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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