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Buy a discount maid at Singapore’s malls

Buy a discount maid at Singapore’s malls

(27 Jun 2014 ) - In Singapore, maids are put on display and made available for 'purchase' in central shopping malls. Go to the Bukit Timah Shopping Centre, a 1970s mall in central Singapore, and you will find five levels of brightly lit rooms and galleries called "Homekeeper" and "Budget Maid". Inside these rooms, dozens of... 

Human Rights Watch: Perils of blogging in S’pore

Human Rights Watch: Perils of blogging in S’pore

Press Statement from Human Rights Watch Dispatches: The Perils of Blogging in Singapore June 24, 2014 In Singapore, blogging dissatisfaction with government policies by insinuating corruption on the part of high officials is a surefire way to get hit with a defamation suit and to lose your job.  But it’s also a quick route... 

HK Democracy Poll Gets Half Million Votes by 2nd Day

HK Democracy Poll Gets Half Million Votes by 2nd Day

(21 June)     More than half a million votes were cast for full democracy in Hong Kong by the second day of an unofficial online poll organized by activists and labeled illegal by China. Since the city’s return to Chinese rule in 1997, a pro-Beijing committee has selected Hong Kong’s leader. China has promised some form... 



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