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filipino globe
Volume 2 Issue 8
www.filglobe.com June 2008
Expert witness backs Pinay in kissing case
SECTIONS
A Main 1 Health Comes First 5
B The City 2-8 GMA 7 29
C National 9-12 Hesei Finance 31
Jose Marcelo in Hong Kong
for the socio-anthropologist from the that it was nothing more than a D World 13-16 HK Jumbo Tours 14
University of the Philippines to come spontaneous show of affection – an
E Focus 19-22
Janet & Grace 33
F Life 23-39
Juno’s 13
A prominent social anthropologist over and take the stand as an expert act the maid said she had also done to
G Big Picture 40
LBC 15
from Manila is set to arrive to testify witness when the trial of Rosielyn her two sons when they were small.
Mahmood Trans 6
Classifieds 33-35
New Mile Travel 16
for the defense in an indecent assault Dulatre resumes on July 14 at the Dulatre’s lawyers contend that there
Inquiries 2918 8248
Orient First Capital 9
case filed against a Filipina maid Fanling Magistracy. was no indecency involved in the Fax 2982 0384
Pak-Asia 33
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charged for kissing the private parts Dulatre, a 29-year-old from Baguio domestic helper’s actions and built ADVERTISERS
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of a four-year-old boy under her care. City, has admitted kissing the private their defense around the argument
Easymaid 4 Stoneridge 27
GenEx Cargo 11
Consulate officials have arranged
Yatka 37
parts of the four-year-old but insisted
CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
$100 raise ‘likely’
Migrants growing anxious as government remains tight-lipped over minimum wage
TRAVEL
Batanes, the tip of
Jose Marcelo in Hong Kong
the archipelago, is a
top tourist destination
Migrant organizations are starting to
grow uneasy as reports have started
as visitors continue
to come out of an impending wage in-
to uncover its
crease for domestic helpers that falls
hidden secrets
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below their demands.
Hong Kong media reports project
an increase of a little over $100, about
a three per cent jump in the minimum
allowable wage for foreign helpers,
which currently stands at $3,480.
Although such an increase would
be bigger than the increments of $80,
All they told
me was that
it will come
KUWENTO NI ADAN
out very Dahil hindi niya
soon
nakapiling ang mga
anak habang ang
mga ito’y lumalaki,
babawi si Joy at
paghuhusayin
ang pagiging lola
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ROMY SALUD
In protest marches and submissions, migrant groups have been pressing for a return to pre-Sars wages.
Labor attache
as further sign that a sizeable wage bor and Welfare Cheung Kin-chung ment ng mga local wages at inflation
$50 and $80 the government had rise for DHs is warranted. moved to dash expectations of a size- rate,” she said.
granted the past three years, it would The Labour Department has been able increase by saying the territory’s However, an organization of Hong
still leave the minimum wage below tightlipped on how much the wage economy has yet to reach the level of Kong employers has claimed that the
the 2003 level of $3,670 which mi- hike would be and on when it would 2003. inflation rate must not come into play
grant groups have sought. be announced. United Filipinos in Hong Kong in the wage review since food and ac-
Militant organizations insist that “All they told me was that it will chairperson Dolores Balladares said comodation of most domestic helpers
the minimum wage should breach the come out very soon,” said labor atta- that based on their own submissions are usually provided by their employ-
PINOY HUMOR
1997 benchmark of $3,860 at a time che Romy Salud after a talk with top which they had sent to the Labour ers.
What’s the fastest
when local wage trends as well as in- Hong Kong labor officials on June Department, the pay for DHs should They have also raised questions
flation are on a steady rise. 12. be as high as $4,000. on whether an annual review of the
thing you can think
They also cite the $100 billion However, in a recent meeting with “Iyon na ang hinihingi namin based maids’ pay is necessary, suggesting a of? Check out our
package in tax breaks and doleouts acting Department of Labor Secretary sa mga nakikita naming mga eco- review once every three years should
Diversions page to
the government recently announced Marianito Roque, Secretary for La- nomic indicators, like ‘yung move- be enough
find out and to get
the best of this
Comment Bits and pieces, as usual Page 20
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