domesticworkers
It’s early Sunday afternoon and Angelo*, a welder from the Philippines, sings Robbie Williams’ song Angels at the top of his lungs inside a flat he shares with fellow migrant workers in Sosnowiec, a Polish city of some 190,000 residents long known for its mining and steel production. In the background, there is the clattering of cutlery as another Filipino man chops onions and throws them into a large pot with pork, amid occasional giggles from his young daughter. More than 6,000 miles away, in the Philippines, she is following her father’s steps via a video call on a mobile phone balanced on ...
Hong Kong Free Press
Hong Kong has been downgraded to a “watch list” over its response to human trafficking, with the US government saying that security laws enacted in the city in 2020 and in March had restricted the ability of NGOs to engage with officials to combat trafficking. The “2024 Trafficking in Persons Report: Hong Kong,” which was released by the US Department of State on Monday, prompted swift objections from the city’s government in a lengthy statement issued in the early hours of Tuesday. “We vehemently oppose and firmly reject the unfounded and false remarks in the Report against the situation in H...
Hong Kong Free Press
By Paul Zimmerman With the decision to postpone waste charging, there is a need to refocus support on the cleaners who sort and collect recyclables in households, businesses, buildings, estates and public areas. The cleaners play a key role in helping building managers minimise waste. Contrary to the popular opinion that the city does a poor job of recycling, Hong Kong is quite successful: we recycle 42 per cent of our used paper, and 92 per cent of our waste metal, including aluminium cans. This is thanks to the efforts of a dense network of cleaners. In addition to the estimated 2,900 scaven...
Hong Kong Free Press
Hong Kong police have arrested 20 people, including 14 Indonesian domestic workers, on suspicion of providing and using “stooge” bank accounts for laundering more than HK$10 million. Six Hong Kong men and 14 Indonesian women, aged between 29 and 63, were apprehended over the weekend for conspiring to commit money laundering in connection with a series of deception cases, police said in a press conference on Monday. Controlled by triadsActing Chief Inspector Eric So of the Kowloon East Regional Crime Unit told the press that a local syndicate had targeted foreign domestic workers and lured them...
Hong Kong Free Press
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