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Another Filipino was found dead in Hong Kong just recently according to a report in Hong Kong News.  The victim according to the report is a 47-year old domestic Filipina helper from Leyte and it was believed that the Filipina committed suicide. The news report also said that this is the fifth suicide case of Filipino in Hong Kong for this year. Despite the Philippines' continuous economic growth, Filipinos are still flocking to unfriendly and dangerous working environment abroad just to earn a living. This makes me wonder if the economic growth being bragged by our economic leaders is really being felt by ordinary Filipinos. I myself is not convinced that there is really an economic boom in this country. Yes, I see a lot of new skycrapers here and there, and news of businesses booming in most parts of our country. Our government has been very generous in reporting economic data to prove that our country is indeed in the right track to industrialization. I believe in t...

Image Source: Wikipedia         I know every Filipinos here and abroad have already read the discriminative post of Chip Tsao entitled "The War At Home". It is so sad that Pinoys are once again belittled by other nationals especially by fellow Asians. Millions of Pinoy parents are spe nding thousands or even millions of peso just to send their children to school. Some of them even sold their most prized properties just to s end their children to college. They have sacrificed so much for their children's sake of earning a college degree. But at the end of the day, after more than four years of school work, of years spent studying English, Physics, Algebra, Biology, Computer and other academic subjects, most of them will just end up working as maids or domestic helpers in Hong Kong or UK. Sad, but their dollar earnings are more than enough to pave away their degrading plight abroad. They would rather set asi de their "pride" and "reputa...