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Topic: domestic-helper

HK actress apologizes for portrayal of Pinay worker

HK actress apologizes for portrayal of Pinay worker

Nadia Lam, South China Morning Post
Updated as of Apr 21 01:52 AM

A Hong Kong actress who darkened her skin to play a Filipino domestic worker in a TV drama has broken her silence after a week to apologize. Read more »

PH envoy slams Hong Kong TV drama portrayal of Filipina

PH envoy slams Hong Kong TV drama portrayal of Filipina

Nadia Lam and Kathleen Magramo, South China Morning Post
Posted at Apr 15 05:06 PM

The Philippine envoy to Hong Kong has called a local television drama “totally disgusting” for featuring a Chinese actress who darkened her skin to portray a domestic helper. Read more »

Brownface depiction of DH in HK series draws flak

Brownface depiction of DH in HK series draws flak

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 13 05:04 PM

A Hong Kong series’ depiction of a foreign domestic helper using brownface, or the darkening of skin using makeup, has drawn criticism on social media. Read more »

Displaced Pinoy workers in Hong Kong appeal for govt help

Displaced Pinoy workers in Hong Kong appeal for govt help

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 07 05:17 PM

Two Filipino workers in Hong Kong are seeking assistance from the Philippine government after losing their jobs and testing positive for COVID-19. Read more »

Virus wave deepens grim conditions for Hong Kong domestic workers

Virus wave deepens grim conditions for Hong Kong domestic workers

Nioucha Zakavati, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 01 06:02 PM

Janice Obiang stifled sobs as she packed goods to send to the Philippines, gifts for loved ones she hasn't seen in years as life for domestic workers in virus-hit Hong Kong goes from bad to worse. Read more »

Bello says Filipinos in Hong Kong in 'good condition'

Bello says Filipinos in Hong Kong in 'good condition'

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 28 10:19 AM

Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III on Monday denied reports that some overseas Filipino workers in Hong Kong were terminated by employers after testing positive for COVID-19. Read more »

Hong Kong bans PAL flights for 2 weeks

Hong Kong bans PAL flights for 2 weeks

Rachel Yeo, South China Morning Post
Posted at Aug 30 11:30 AM

Ban is likely to upend travel plans of some Filipino helpers just as a new scheme opens permitting them to come to city after months of waiting. Read more »

Ilang OFW nabulaga na di kinilala sa Hong Kong ang vaccine cards ng Pilipinas

Ilang OFW nabulaga na di kinilala sa Hong Kong ang vaccine cards ng Pilipinas

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 11 08:43 PM

Problemado ang ilang manggagawang Pinoy dahil hindi kinikilala ng Hong Kong ang vaccine cards mula sa Pilipinas. Read more »

THROWBACK: Domestic helper noon, milyonarya na ngayon | Rated K

THROWBACK: Domestic helper noon, milyonarya na ngayon | Rated K

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 06 02:52 PM

Mula sa pagiging DH noon, buhay donya na ngayon si Rebecca.  Read more »

Hong Kong domestic workers queue up outside testing centers

Hong Kong domestic workers queue up outside testing centers

Kathleen Magramo, South China Morning Post
Posted at May 17 01:37 PM

Some dress in red after a group urged workers to wear the color as a sign of protest over the requirement for another test. Domestic helpers had nine days to comply with the first screening order, but this time have about two weeks. Read more »

OFWs, mga opisyal hati sa planong mandatory vaccination sa Hong Kong helpers

OFWs, mga opisyal hati sa planong mandatory vaccination sa Hong Kong helpers

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of May 03 08:52 PM

Hati ang mga apektadong partido sa panukalang mandatory vaccination ng Hong Kong sa household workers.  Read more »

Domestic workers alarmed by compulsory Hong Kong vaccine plan

Domestic workers alarmed by compulsory Hong Kong vaccine plan

Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 01 10:28 PM

Hong Kong migrant worker groups on Saturday criticized plans to make coronavirus vaccines compulsory for all foreign domestic helpers, labeling the move "discriminatory and unjust". Read more »

Domestic helper jailed 9 months for pushing, stepping on baby

Domestic helper jailed 9 months for pushing, stepping on baby

South China Morning Post
Updated as of Apr 06 01:03 PM

Stressed by family matters back home, Suliana Kasim Dapok acted out by stepping on her Singapore employer's one-and-half-year old son and pushing him to the floor after he vomited on the carpet. Read more »

'Quietly vanish into the night,' Palace tells envoy sacked over helper abuse

'Quietly vanish into the night,' Palace tells envoy sacked over helper abuse

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 09 06:17 PM

Malacañang on Tuesday told a former ambassador to "just quietly vanish into the night", as she tried to appeal her removal from government service over her physical abuse of her helper, which was caught on camera. Read more »

Dismissed PH envoy to Brazil claims case was 'mishandled'

Dismissed PH envoy to Brazil claims case was 'mishandled'

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 03 10:32 PM

The Philippines' former ambassador to Brazil who was dismissed after being caught maltreating her helper broke her silence regarding the controversy. Read more »

Filipina domestic helper recounts experience under sacked PH envoy to Brazil

Filipina domestic helper recounts experience under sacked PH envoy to Brazil

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 02 10:51 PM

The Filipina household helper physically abused by the Philippine ambassador to Brazil recounted to ABS-CBN News the maltreatment she experienced at the hands of the envoy.  Read more »

No more domestic staff for PH diplomats abroad following Mauro case— Locsin

No more domestic staff for PH diplomats abroad following Mauro case— Locsin

Willard Cheng, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 02 04:01 PM

MANILA — Diplomatic officers assigned abroad are no longer allowed to bring domestic staff to their overseas posts, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. revealed Tuesday, following the maltreatment of a Filipino household help by the former Philippine Ambassador to Brazil.  Read more »

Hong Kong rejects 319 visa applications from 'job-hopping' domestic helpers

Hong Kong rejects 319 visa applications from 'job-hopping' domestic helpers

South China Morning Post
Posted at Feb 04 06:27 AM

Hong Kong immigration officials rejected work applications from more than 300 "job-hopping" foreign domestic helpers last year, almost double the 2018 figure, the city's security minister has revealed. Read more »

Contacts of HK Pinay with new COVID-19 variant test positive, but no UK mutation

Contacts of HK Pinay with new COVID-19 variant test positive, but no UK mutation

Kristine Sabillo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jan 14 03:54 PM

MANILA — The Department of Health on Thursday said that the contacts of the Filipina domestic helper in Hong Kong did not have the new and more transmissible COVID-19 variant from the United Kingdom.   Read more »

Case vs ex-PH envoy to Brazil caught maltreating aide now under ‘formal investigation’

Case vs ex-PH envoy to Brazil caught maltreating aide now under ‘formal investigation’

Willard Cheng, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 02 02:50 PM

The Department of Affairs' (DFA) case against recalled ambassador to Brazil Marichu Mauro? who was caught maltreating her helper in November “is already under formal investigation,” an official said Wednesday.  Read more »

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