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Employment situation ‘critical’
BEIJING: China warned Thursday it was facing serious unemployment problems because of the global economic crisis, amid signs it was increasingly concerned about social tensions across the country.
“Currently, the employment situation is critical, and this impact [of the financial crisis] is still unfolding,” Yin Weimin, China’s social security minister, told reporters in response to [...]
Visa sought for live-in Filipino domestics in HK
- MARK JOSEPH UBALDE, GMANews.TV
MANILA, Philippines - Filipino household workers who are forced to live with their employers may soon have the choice not to do so if a visa for domestic helpers would be issued soon.
Rex Varona, Asian Migrant Center executive director, told GMANews.TV that different foreign [...]
Filipina tourist in Hong Kong saved from prostitution
- DAISY C.L. MANDAP, The Sun
A young and pretty Filipina tourist who was promised a job as a “waitress” in Hong Kong was saved in the nick of time by members of a church group from a suspected white slavery gang.
Cristine S., a resident of Bacoor, Cavite, [...]
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