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Philippine workers overseas toil far from home, dream of their return to their country, and send home income representing 10 percent of the total Philippine national product
by Normitsu Onishi
MABINI, the Philippines — Mediterranean-inspired, pastel-colored houses dot the coast and hills of this rural town in the Philippines, dwarfing their traditional counterparts made of unpainted concrete blocks under roofs of corrugated zinc. The larger houses, barely inhabited, many of them empty, belong to overseas workers who plan to return here one day.