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4 results for Phillipines

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Eager weavers

15 November 2012

Cebu is the manufacturing base for many high-end international furniture brands but it’s only recently gaining the recognition it deserves for its skilled craftsmanship. Meet the people boosting the city’s reputation and…

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People power

20 January 2011

With bleak job prospects facing its population, the Philippines has turned the search for work into an export success story by encouraging its most valuable resource -its people - to train abroad.

Radio

The Globalist - Wednesday 22 April

22 April 2015

We learn what the Balikatan military exercises involving the US and the Phillipines are for, hear the latest on Turkey’s political opposition and get the business news from Australia.

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Asia

21 June 2012

Work on a new motorway to drastically improve the Phillipines' infrastructure gets underway, tree planting takes off in China to combat desertification and Kabul to educate the population on conservation, while India's…