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Traveling in the region even if only for a few days can be very rewarding.  You never know what you will discover even in the most casual of trips. I often go to Singapore and cannot imagine it would be an adventure. I like its food, its lush greenery, efficient public transport and its clean, well lighted streets.

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Hong Kong’s Legislative Council denied yesterday a motion to publicly express its opposition to foreign domestic helpers’ campaign for right of abode, a newspaper here said.

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The biggest international karting event, the 2009 Asian Karting Open Championship Series and Magnolia Pure Water Karting Super Series, kicks off today with over 70 karters from eight countries competing for the titles at the Carmona Circuit Philippines.

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Last March 5, Mrs. Arroyo barred the sending of domestic helpers to Hong Kong until further notice after the special administrative region spurned her appeals and reduced the minimum wage for foreign maids.
[DatePublished] => 2003-03-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804833 [AuthorName] => Marichu A. Villanueva [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 174797 [Title] => KL deportations strain intra-ASEAN relations [Summary] => KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) – A bitter row over Malaysia’s treatment of illegal immigrants has rekindled old animosities and revealed the new strains that different levels of economic development have placed on regional relations.

Relatively rich Malaysia has been denounced in the Philippines and Indonesia as "arrogant." "insulting" and "inhumane" for driving hundreds of thousands of impoverished migrant workers out of the country, and caning and jailing those who fail to flee.
[DatePublished] => 2002-09-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 165336 [Title] => 100,000 Pinoys in Malaysia face jail terms, whipping [Summary] => Some 100,000 illegal Filipino entrants in Malaysia will be thrown in jail, whipped and fined heavily if they do not leave the country before July 31, the Overseas Workers’ Welfare Administration (OWWA) said yesterday.

"Starting August this year, Malaysia will implement a new law that spells out stiffer penalties for those who entered the country illegally as well as those employing and harboring them," OWWA Administrator Wilhelm Soriano said.
[DatePublished] => 2002-06-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097338 [AuthorName] => Mayen Jaymalin [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 163482 [Title] => Malaysia to start crackdown on illegal immigrants in 3 months [Summary] => Malaysia warned yesterday it would begin whipping illegal immigrants in about three months following amendments to the country’s immigration laws.

Malaysian ambassador Taufik Mohamed Noor stressed that Filipinos who comprise a big number of the illegals were not being singled out, and that Kuala Lumpur was not the first country in Southeast Asia to mete out corporal punishment.
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Traveling in the region even if only for a few days can be very rewarding.  You never know what you will discover even in the most casual of trips. I often go to Singapore and cannot imagine it would be an adventure. I like its food, its lush greenery, efficient public transport and its clean, well lighted streets.

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Hong Kong’s Legislative Council denied yesterday a motion to publicly express its opposition to foreign domestic helpers’ campaign for right of abode, a newspaper here said.

[DatePublished] => 2011-10-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 486900 [Title] => Asian Karting Open on at Carmona [Summary] =>

The biggest international karting event, the 2009 Asian Karting Open Championship Series and Magnolia Pure Water Karting Super Series, kicks off today with over 70 karters from eight countries competing for the titles at the Carmona Circuit Philippines.

[DatePublished] => 2009-07-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 199380 [Title] => Government set to lift ban on maids to HK [Summary] => The government will lift the suspension of the sending of Filipino domestic helpers to Hong Kong as soon as a complaint is filed there in court questioning a cut in foreign maids’ wages, President Arroyo said yesterday.

Last March 5, Mrs. Arroyo barred the sending of domestic helpers to Hong Kong until further notice after the special administrative region spurned her appeals and reduced the minimum wage for foreign maids.
[DatePublished] => 2003-03-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804833 [AuthorName] => Marichu A. Villanueva [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 174797 [Title] => KL deportations strain intra-ASEAN relations [Summary] => KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) – A bitter row over Malaysia’s treatment of illegal immigrants has rekindled old animosities and revealed the new strains that different levels of economic development have placed on regional relations.

Relatively rich Malaysia has been denounced in the Philippines and Indonesia as "arrogant." "insulting" and "inhumane" for driving hundreds of thousands of impoverished migrant workers out of the country, and caning and jailing those who fail to flee.
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"Starting August this year, Malaysia will implement a new law that spells out stiffer penalties for those who entered the country illegally as well as those employing and harboring them," OWWA Administrator Wilhelm Soriano said.
[DatePublished] => 2002-06-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097338 [AuthorName] => Mayen Jaymalin [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 163482 [Title] => Malaysia to start crackdown on illegal immigrants in 3 months [Summary] => Malaysia warned yesterday it would begin whipping illegal immigrants in about three months following amendments to the country’s immigration laws.

Malaysian ambassador Taufik Mohamed Noor stressed that Filipinos who comprise a big number of the illegals were not being singled out, and that Kuala Lumpur was not the first country in Southeast Asia to mete out corporal punishment.
[DatePublished] => 2002-06-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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