81.   The millions of Filipino overseas workers send home billions of dollars each year, with much of it arriving before Christmas.

82.   The peso, meanwhile, strengthened moderately, buoyed by steady inflows of dollars from overseas Filipino workers, dealers said.

83.   The movement also said it was launching a campaign to raise money for a scholarship fund for Balabagan and other Filipino migrant workers caught in similar circumstances.

84.   The Philippines and Taiwan have reached an agreement allowing Taiwanese firms to directly hire Filipino workers, a Filipino official says.

85.   The Philippines established diplomatic ties Tuesday with the tiny Pacific republic of Palau, where Filipino workers comprise nearly a third of the population.

86.   The Philippines imports practically all its oil needs and pays its import bill partly through the remittances of overseas Filipino workers.

87.   The row over the hanging has made Mrs. Contemplacion a symbol of Filipino workers who suffer abuses abroad.

88.   The Philippines will send more labor officials to seven countries where there have been increasing reports of abuses against Filipino workers, Labor Secretary Nieves Confesor said Thursday.

89.   The Philippine media have elevated her to the status of a national heroine and a symbol of Filipino workers who suffer abuses abroad.

90.   The plight of Filipino workers in foreign countries came into international attention when Singapore hanged a maid, Flor Contemplacion, for double murder last year.