71.   Filipino emigrants or overseas workers now make up the largest investor group in their impoverished homeland, President Gloria Arroyo said Friday.

72.   GNP includes income from abroad such as the remittances of overseas workers while GDP is limited to income made only in the country.

73.   He reiterated that the government had apologised to the Malaysian government and would closely screen would-be overseas workers in future.

74.   In demonstrations in French overseas departments, scuffles broke out at rallies by civil servants threatened with a cut in extra payments for overseas workers.

75.   Islam said the earnings in remittances from overseas workers could be much higher if markets for Bangladeshi labour had not been affected by the reaction to illegal workers.

76.   China will launch a nationwide crackdown on illegal overseas workers Wednesday, targetting everyone from diplomatic spouses to foreign prostitutes and smugglers, a labour ministry official said.

77.   China sought Tuesday to reassure legal overseas workers and students here that they would not be affected by a crackdown on foreigners engaging in illegal employment.

78.   Despite its trade deficit, the Philippines has continued to post a balance of payments surplus due to foreign investments and the remittances of overseas workers.

79.   The Philippine House of Representatives on Thursday passed a tax reform bill exempting overseas Filipino workers from income tax.

80.   The Philippine economy relies heavily on income from overseas domestic workers.