Sentences with phrase «many filipino»

West Perth based nickel explorer ENK will officially delist from the Australian Stock Exchange today after being taken over by Filipino resources and construction giant DMCI Holdings.

Feldstein scoured Facebook looking for local Fort McMurray cleaning crews — mainly South Asians and Filipinos long based in the city — and hired them with the promise of plentiful work and daily payment.

In a bathroom down the hall, a member of a team of Filipino cleaners scrubbed a shower stall using three limbs simultaneously — two hands and a foot to press a rag against the enamel.

It is true that the US did not persecute the Jews - or at least, as one Nazi lawyer remarked in 1936, it had not persecuted the Jews «so far» - but it had created a host of forms of second - class citizenship for other minority groups, including Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos, Puerto Ricans and Native Americans, scattered all over the Union and its colonies.

Paradoxically, the US also maintains high approval ratings among Filipinos, even as Duterte's rhetoric against Washington has resonated with some of his constituents.

Responding to the ban, Kuwaiti Deputy Foreign Minister Khalid Sulaiman Al - Jarallah expressed «the keenness of the State of Kuwait to protect the rights of all residents, including the Filipino community, within the framework of the labor laws in force in the State of Kuwait,» according to a government statement translated from Arabic.

At home, one in five Filipinos live below the poverty line, according to the Asian Development Bank.

Since 2016, 196 Filipino workers have died in Kuwait, and nearly 80 percent of those deaths were due to physical abuse, according to the Philippines» Overseas Workers Welfare Administration.

Filipinos are one of the world's largest diaspora populations, with more than 10 million — that's one in ten — seeking work abroad.

The ban is being imposed despite the Philippines» reliance on remittance money from its Kuwait - based workers — 262,000 Filipinos are employed in the oil - rich Gulf sheikhdom, 60 percent as domestic staff.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday made permanent a temporary ban on his country's citizens traveling to Kuwait to work, following a series of abuse and murder cases involving Filipino victims.

The minister also expressed his country's «willingness to cooperate with friends in the Philippines to look at ways to resolve all outstanding issues related to Filipino employment.»

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Many Filipinos are quick to acknowledge that our culture is very emotionally expressive, and that more than a few of us are diehard romantics.

In Oakland at a later march, more than 1,000 people marched peacefully representing labor groups along with Mexican, Vietnamese, Chinese, Filipino and other immigrants.

After opening its doors in Toronto, Jollibee hopes to expand to other cities in Canada — like Vancouver and Winnipeg — with high Filipino populations.

Jose Miñana, who heads U.S. operations for the company, says Jollibee initially limited its expansion to just those areas with large Filipino populations.

So over the past few years, the company has pulled back: reverting to original recipes, closing underperforming stores and retrenching in areas with large Filipino communities.

(It also doesn't hurt that Filipinos spend more time on social media than any other country, with the average user spending almost 4 hours on social every day.)

The menu was like a snapshot of my youth, with offerings like Filipino - style spaghetti (it's a bit sweeter than what most Americans are used to) and «Halo - halo» (literally translated, «mix - mix»), a delicious dessert made up of shaved ice, evaporated milk, fruit, coconut, ice cream... and boiled sweet beans.

The five miles from Astoria to Forest Hills have a dense progression of languages: Greek, Filipino, Urdu, Indonesian, Russian, Japanese, Lithuanian, and others, including more obscure ones like Chavacano, Waray - Waray, Minangkabau, and Bukharian.

Everyone from Ellen Degeneres to the Ohio State marching band to Filipino prisoners to your cousin's wedding party have imitated the song's dance moves, which is sung entirely in Korean, save for the title and the obligatory, «Heeeey, sexy lady!»

When UCLA's Smith travelled to the Arctic to document the effects of climate change, locals would «sigh and oblige me, but then say, «There's also this oil plant going up behind me,» or, «All these Filipino immigrants are pouring in.

According to an ESPN list released yesterday, it's Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao, who earned US$ 50 million in 2011 from two fights.

«He often jokes about killing drug dealers... He'll say, «You know the Chinese and Filipinos don't have a drug problem.

Even though Duterte said he would not deviate from the July court ruling and that he would not bring up the issue during his visit, a Philippine official did tell Reuters that he intended to raise the issue of Filipino fishermen, who had been denied access to waters around Scarborough since 2012, when China seized the shoal.

Last year, Seafood City Supermarket — a large Filipino grocery chain with two dozen U.S. locations — opened its first Canadian store in Mississauga, Ont.

Canada's large and growing Filipino population coupled with many Canadians» eagerness to sample international cuisines make the country a prime choice for Filipino food service businesses.

TORONTO — A Filipino fast - food chain restaurant opened the doors to its first Toronto location this weekend to a long line of fans, some who waited hours, to taste the brand's chicken, burgers and sweet - style spaghetti sauce and noodles.

Jollibee Foods Corporation's aggressive international expansion includes a focus on Canada, where Filipino food is seeing a rise in visibility with several higher - end Filipino restaurants opening in recent years, as well as a major grocery store catering to cooks of the cuisine.

A Filipino fast - food chain restaurant opened the doors to its first Toronto location this weekend to a long line of fans.

Calgary, Toronto, Winnipeg and Vancouver all boast restaurants dishing up Filipino or Filipino - inspired fare.

Toronto's Queen West neighbourhood has been home to Lamesa Filipino Kitchen since 2014.

Its mission is «to share Filipino food with the mainstream.»

Birth control is available, but its price makes it accessible only to wealthy or middle class Filipinos.

If Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte gets his way, some millions of Filipino women could soon have access to free birth control and other reproductive health - related services.

«I'm Filipino, so I have this dual minority identity,» notes Saguil.

The Filipino - Canadian mining firm of TVI - Resources Development Philippines Inc. has announced that it plans to invest C$ 27 million for a mining venture in Zamboanga del Norte which will produce gold, copper, silver and zinc.

Update: The agency has now put out a statement in which privacy commissioner Raymund Enriquez Liboroit states that Facebook told it 558 Filipino users had installed the personality quiz app that was used by CA as the route to harvest Facebook friend data — and ultimately to pull data on up to 1,175,312 more local users.

He goes on to call on Filipino Facebook users «to be circumspect in using the platform and exercise online personal vigilance».

«While Facebook claims remediation is underway, we continue to call on Facebook to face us Filipinos with a new level of transparency.

Jollibee has a huge following in the Philippines, as well as with Filipinos overseas, for its burgers and other fast - food meals.

But it has also been expanding across Southeast Asia and beyond, hoping to appeal to lucrative local consumers as well as Filipino expatriates with coffee, donut and noodle offerings.

Palarin, a Filipino startup, launched its user - friendly bitcoin selling and buying service this week.

What do you think about Palarin's chances in the Filipino bitcoin market?

Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCL), which employs nearly 13,000 Filipinos, is matching donations from employees in an effort it said would raise $ 1 million.

So, for example, just 558 Filipino Facebook users installed the personality quiz app that passed data to Cambridge Analytica — yet the company was able to grab personal data on up to 1,175,312 more users in that country as a result of how Facebook allowed people's data to be shared with developers on its platform.

In 2000, only 10,740 Filipinos immigrated to Canada, yet by 2014, the number almost quadrupled to 40,020.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said Sunday that a ban on Filipino workers from heading to Kuwait that's been in effect since February would now be permanent, inflaming a dispute sparked by complaints of the abuse of Filipina housemaids and workers in the Persian Gulf country.

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