Overseas Filipino workers brave job hazards for survival

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The Philippines is the largest organised labour-exporting country in the world, according to statistics from the US-based Brookings Institution.

An estimated eight million Filipinos live and work overseas, but for many workers trying to earn a living the job is proving dangerous and even fatal.

Al Jazeera's Marga Ortigas reports. (Oct 16, 2010)

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