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Hong Kong Tightens the Screws on Domestic Helpers

Government puts more barriers in the way of changing jobs

Our Correspondent
Nov 20, 2021
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Whether or not it is a spinoff from Hong Kong’s Beijing-driven obsession with National Security issues, the government’s always-condescending attitude to non-white foreigners has acquired a new dimension of disrespect which, in other countries, would be defined by a simple word: “racism.”

On November 18, the Immigration Department took to attacking the d…

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