Philippine remittances grow by 3.1 pct in April

MANILA, June 17 (Xinhua) -- Personal remittances from overseas Filipinos reached 2.86 billion U.S. dollars in April, 3.1 percent higher than the 2.77 billion dollars recorded a year earlier, the Philippine central bank said on Monday.

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said the cumulative personal remittances grew by 2.8 percent to 12.01 billion dollars from January to April this year, from 11.68 billion doll