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DUBAI—The Philippine government is contemplating to launch a job summit in
East Asia region as a way to create more new jobs for the country’s
expatriate workers in the midst of the global economic uncertainties.
After the successful holding of the jobs summit at the Renaissance Dubai
Hotel here that generated more than 200,000 new jobs for overseas Filipino
workers (OFWs) in the Middle East countries, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
said the government is targeting to replicate the summit for East Asia
countries that include People's Republic of China, Japan, South Korea and
North Korea.
“I think we should do one in East Asia because we want to concentrate in
areas where the host countries have been buffeted by uncertainties,” the
President in a media interview by Dubai-based Filipino journalists at the
Atlantis Hotel in Palm Jumeirah here.
The job summit is one of the government’s payback programs being carried out
to help expatriate workers in host countries that are being affected by the
global economic meltdown.
Entitled Employment and Business Opportunities: The Middle East Forum, it
was the first job summit held in Middle East countries where key players
composed of employers, manpower providers, officials of the Philippine and
Gulf Cooperating Countries discussed on how the Philippines can accelerate
the filing up of its large share of job orders in the Gulf regions within
the year.
During the summit, the Gulf employers has assured the President of the
availability of 200,141 new jobs in the Middle East region that spread in
the following countries: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 107,525; United Arab
Emirates, 39,128 ; Kuwait, 39,169; Libya and Algeria, 21,527; Oman, 11,356;
and Bahrain, 3,446.
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