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Hong Kong Finds New Maids to Exploit

Hong Kong Finds New Maids to Exploit

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Aug 20, 2013
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Hong Kong recently began recruiting domestic helpers (maids) from Bangladesh, supposedly as a goodwill gesture towards the poor South Asian nation. To many, however, it is an effort to keep down wages and find a source of maids even less liable to complain than Indonesians, who had already overtaken Filipinas by number. They were considered to be less e…

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