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Britain's Jersey Island Needed Workers to Harvest Potatoes. Filipinos Came to the Rescue

Pinoys are helping prop up the economy of the island in the English Channel.

After the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union in a referendum in 2016 (what has since been called Brexit), there was widespread uncertainty about its effect on the British way of life. In Jersey, in particular, farmers expressed concern that there ...

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The British Once Controlled Islands in Mindanao When the Philippines Gained Independence

Here’s how the British peacefully handed them over to the Philippines.

Everybody knows the story of how the British peacefully relinquished administration of Hong Kong and Macau back to China in the 1990s, but not many know a similar handover involving islands it controlled here in the Philippines.ALSO READ: HISTORYWho Is Bill Shaw, ...