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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'

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

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

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

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

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’

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 »

Locsin says case vs Brazil envoy caught maltreating helper ‘moving'

Willard Cheng, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 17 03:21 PM

Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin, Jr. Tuesday said the case that the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) filed against recalled Philippine Ambassador to Brazil Marichu Mauro over the maltreatment of her helper is “moving.”  Read more »

Formal charge served on ex-envoy to Brazil over maltreatment of aide

Willard Cheng, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 09 01:19 PM

Former Philippine Ambassador to Brazil Marichu Mauro was served a complaint Monday morning over her maltreatment of her Filipina domestic helper, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said. Read more »

Filipina domestic helper in Hong Kong wins appeal against claims dismissal by HK tribunal

Jasmine Siu, South China Morning Post
Posted at Nov 04 12:51 PM

Hong Kong's High Court finds no evidence supporting the employer’s accusations, and declares the dismissal of the helper’s case ‘an error of law’, based on the presiding officer’s report. Mallorca Domingo had sued employer Ng Mei-shuen in 2016 over her dismissal on improper grounds, seeking damages of some HK$85,900. Read more »

Filipina helper in SG acquitted of theft, said boss compensated her for his sexual advances

South China Morning Post by Today Online
Posted at Nov 03 01:56 PM

The domestic worker was found guilty of withdrawing US$5,800 from her elderly employer’s bank account, but appealed and won. It comes soon after a high-profile case in which an Indonesian helper was acquitted of stealing from ex-Changi Airport Group chairman Liew Mun Leong. Read more »

Ex-PH envoy to Brazil now back home

Sherrie Ann Torres, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Nov 03 05:23 AM

MANILA - Former Philippine Ambassador to Brazil Marichu Mauro is back in the country, days after she was caught on video maltreating her Filipino domestic helper inside her residence in the Latin American country. Read more »

DFA launches probe vs PH envoy to Brazil; help pours in for maltreated aide

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 30 11:49 PM

Financial and legal assistance poured in for the Filipino domestic helper who was maltreated by Philippine envoy to Brazil Marichu Mauro. Read more »