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                    [Title] => Pinay maids lose court battle for HK residency
                    [Summary] => 

Hong Kong’s top court ruled yesterday against two Filipino domestic helpers seeking permanent residency – the final decision in a case that affects tens of thousands of other foreign maids in the southern Chinese financial hub.

[DatePublished] => 2013-03-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 914846 [Title] => Pinoy maids’ bid for HK residency reaches highest court [Summary] =>

The bid of Filipino helpers for permanent residency rights has reached the Court of Final Appeal (CFA), the city’s highest court.

[DatePublished] => 2013-03-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1212384 [AuthorName] => Carina Roncesvalles [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 780272 [Title] => Pinay drug mule gets 17 years [Summary] =>

A Filipina tourist was sentenced here yesterday to 17 years imprisonment for bringing in close to three kilos of illegal drugs in May last year.

[DatePublished] => 2012-02-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1212384 [AuthorName] => Carina Roncesvalles [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 741295 [Title] => Foreign maids' abode applications to be withheld: Hong Kong authority [Summary] =>

The Hong Kong authority announced here on Wednesday that right-of-abode applications for foreign domestic helpers will continue to be withheld after a High Court judgment said the government needs not apply for the suspension of an earlier ruling that it was unconstitutional to deny these helpers permanent residency.

[DatePublished] => 2011-10-26 20:39:33 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 732231 [Title] => HK gov't to appeal against domestic helpers abode ruling [Summary] =>

Hong Kong's Secretary for Security Ambrose Lee Friday said the government has decided to appeal against the ruling on the landmark judicial review on right of abode lodged by a foreign domestic helper.

[DatePublished] => 2011-09-30 19:02:03 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 712388 [Title] => 4 Pinay maids wage legal battle for permanent HK residency [Summary] =>

At least four Filipino domestic workers who have been working here for more than 20 years have waged a legal battle for the Hong Kong government to grant them permanent residency.

[DatePublished] => 2011-08-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1212384 [AuthorName] => Carina Roncesvalles [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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