Foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong are in a worse situation 10 years after their mandatory live-in employment arrangement was enforced, according to a migrant rights group Mission for Migrant Workers (MFMW).
Saying the Philippines was a “torture risk state,” an official of the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has criticized the Hong Kong Immigration Department for its decision denying the claim for protection of Myrna Reblando, widow of slain Manila Bulletin correspondent Bong Reblando, one of the victims in the Maguindanao massacre.
Hong Kong’s Immigration Department has rejected a bid for protection made by Myrna Reblando, widow of one of the journalists slain in the Maguindanao massacre, saying it did not believe she would be tortured should she return to the Philippines.
Overseas absentee voting (OAV) for Filipinos abroad opened smoothly on Saturday, except in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where voting will commence on Tuesday, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said Saturday.
Good news for Filipinos planning to work in Hong Kong as household service workers (HSWs), or maids. A group of Philippine-based licensed recruiters has lifted its self-imposed moratorium on the deployment of HSWs to China’s Special Administrative Region, or SAR.
The deployment of household service workers (HSWs) to Hong Kong has dropped following a moratorium imposed by a group of Philippine-based recruitment agencies.
Hong Kong employers of Filipino maids are holding on to them or renewing their contracts themselves after a Philippine-based recruiters association imposed a moratorium on the deployment of household service workers (HSW) to the Chinese special region.
It may seem surprising but even in Hong Kong, a place so highly “cybertized” and quick to acquire new technology and gadgets, Internet cafés and computer shops persist. And one of the more popular is a Filipino computer shop in Central. Jess Advincula’s Pinoy Worldnet has created a Filipino community built on technology, entrepreneurship [...]
A self-imposed moratorium by a group of Philippine-based licensed recruiters might deprive some 35,000 Filipinos of jobs as household service workers (HSWs) in Hong Kong.
A self-imposed moratorium by a group of Philippine-based licensed recruiters might deprive some 35,000 Filipinos wanting to work as household service workers (HSWs) in Hong Kong.
Filipino domestic workers in Hong Kong want the Philippine government to lift the ban on the direct hiring of Filipino domestic workers abroad.
Hong Kong’s top court on Tuesday began hearing a challenge to the right of abode law in a long-running case that could pave the way for thousands of foreign maids to claim residency in the city.
