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Statistics: Unemployment in RP as high as ever
Mar 19 2008, Maynard Joseph

Although the Philippines is one of the countries in Southeast Asia whose workforce is competitive in terms of the skilled workers and mostly good English speakers, this does not translate to the recent statistics of millions of jobless Filipinos who...

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