81.   There are an estimated four million Filipino overseas workers in various parts of Asia, the Middle East, and Europe.

82.   This was in reference to the economic dowturn and dislocation of Filipino overseas workers that occured after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and the succeeding Gulf War.

83.   Migrante and other leftist groups widely blame the Philippine government for allowing the exploitation of overseas workers, saying that Manila does not do enough to help them.

84.   Most of it consisted of remittances of Filipino overseas workers.

85.   Nuwa Wea reiterated that the government had apologised to the Malaysian government and would closely screen would-be overseas workers in future.

86.   Officials said Ramos allowed Soma in because the bishop had been helping runaway Filipino overseas workers in Nagoya.

87.   Philippine Labor Undersecretary Bienvenido Laguesma, a delegate at the conference, said that the treatment of overseas workers was not specifically discussed.

88.   Overseas workers are often vulnerable to abuse, Ould said.

89.   Philippine President Fidel Ramos has approved a program to get Filipino overseas workers to invest in the local stock exchange, government regulators said Tuesday.

90.   Philippines President Fidel Ramos was forced to set up a commission to investigate both the hanging and the conditions of overseas workers.