Bangladesh to send 45k maids to Singapore

• Clivebenss

  29 Aug 10, 19:56

  Aug 29, 2010
  

  Bangladesh to send 45k maids to S'pore

  DHAKA - SINGAPORE will recruit 45,000 Bangladeshi domestic workers in a boost for the impoverished country's labour export sector after jobs dried up in the Middle East and elsewhere in Asia, an official said on Sunday.

  Singaporean recruiting firms agreed on the number following talks in Dhaka last week, director of the government's Bureau of Manpower Employment and Training (BMET) Nurul Islam told AFP.

  'They want some 45,000 maids in a year. We shall train the maids and start sending them to Singapore by the end of this year,' Ms Islam said. 'It's a very good news for us. It comes as our traditional markets such as the Middle Eastern countries and Malaysia have yet to ride out the impact of the global recession.'

  The global downturn affected jobs for Bangladeshi workers in the construction and manufacturing sectors in the Persian Gulf.

  According to the BMET, Bangladesh sent 202,000 workers abroad in the first half of 2010 - the lowest in four years.

  Malaysia, hit hard by the recession, has accepted no new Bangladeshi workers for more than a year. Saudi Arabia, which employs more than two million Bangladeshis, signed up only 2,200 in the first quarter of 2010. For the same period in 2008, it employed 48,000. -- AFP

• Hwaimeng

  29 Aug 10, 21:15

  ok this will increase the black babies in singapore

  nice .........

• Chris88110

  29 Aug 10, 21:24

  They sending maids or brides?

• Arapahoe

  29 Aug 10, 21:41

  All included.....

• Call4ljw

  30 Aug 10, 09:53

  This will make singapore hotter!!!

  (Black arsorbs heat?!?!?!)

   

• Uraniumfish

  30 Aug 10, 10:17

  Originally posted by Call4ljw:

  This will make singapore hotter!!!

  (Black arsorbs heat?!?!?!)

   

  So this is what a physics failure sounds like....

• Junyang700

  30 Aug 10, 10:24

  End of Filipino maids era..... Saw the news today.... USD400 for a maid excluding levy and taxes in Singapore....

• _Da_Dood_

  30 Aug 10, 14:30

  more chin chao

• Arapahoe

  30 Aug 10, 17:13

  Originally posted by Junyang700:

  End of Filipino maids era..... Saw the news today.... USD400 for a maid excluding levy and taxes in Singapore....

  On the contra i think there will be higher numbers of filipino coming to SG.....they may not take up as maid but other jobs.....They speak better english and not to mention they are probably feeling the "Heat" in Hong Kong.....

   

• likeyou

  30 Aug 10, 17:47

  Why send so many to spore?

  Sporean are not rich!

   

• Clivebenss

  30 Aug 10, 18:06

  wonder which are those recruiting firms... ?

  

• likeyou

  30 Aug 10, 18:07

  Originally posted by Clivebenss:

  wonder which are those recruiting firms... ?

  

  
  Sporean guys more choice??? hehehehe

• Clivebenss

  30 Aug 10, 18:13

  Originally posted by likeyou:

  
  Sporean guys more choice??? hehehehe

  never know.

  

• likeyou

  30 Aug 10, 18:14

  Originally posted by Clivebenss:

  never know.

  

  
  Next generations all babies are tan in colour.

  Birth rates up.....

• gUms

  30 Aug 10, 18:19

  Stop being d|ckheads, you can ask your mom n sister to be maids then. They are not here as brides.

• Junyang700

  30 Aug 10, 19:01

  Originally posted by Arapahoe:

  On the contra i think there will be higher numbers of filipino coming to SG.....they may not take up as maid but other jobs.....They speak better english and not to mention they are probably feeling the "Heat" in Hong Kong.....

   

  Yup. No more Filipino maids... but Filipinos coming here as managers and foreign talents here to supervise us with our work.
  
  Last time they call us Sir/Mum... Now its payback time... we gonna call them Sir and Mum liao....

• Just_do_it_lah

  30 Aug 10, 19:09

  Foreign Talents ? 

• Junyang700

  30 Aug 10, 19:11

  Originally posted by Just_do_it_lah:

  Foreign Talents ? 

  Yup... Havent you realised that the restaurant and supermarket managers are now made up of Filipinos?

• Clivebenss

  30 Aug 10, 19:19

  Originally posted by Junyang700:

  Yup... Havent you realised that the restaurant and supermarket managers are now made up of Filipinos?

  yes, many pinoy managers nowadays.

• Just_do_it_lah

  30 Aug 10, 19:31

  Alot of telemarkers are Filipinos too...

   

• Junyang700

  30 Aug 10, 20:00

  Originally posted by Clivebenss:

  yes, many pinoy managers nowadays.

  Was working at Cold Storage last year.... Those Filipino managers are armed with degree certs from Phillippines.... LOL....
  
  Our fresh grads here gonna compete with them... After all, both are degree cert holders....

• likeyou

  30 Aug 10, 20:02

  How come no china maids?

• Junyang700

  30 Aug 10, 20:06

  Originally posted by likeyou:

  How come no china maids?

  Singapore aunties scared their ah lau run away lor....
  
  Maid = Younger, prettier.... den die liao...

• Clivebenss

  30 Aug 10, 20:07

  Originally posted by Junyang700:

  Singapore aunties scared their ah lau run away lor....
  
  Maid = Younger, prettier.... den die liao...

  

• likeyou

  30 Aug 10, 20:08

  Originally posted by Junyang700:

  Singapore aunties scared their ah lau run away lor....
  
  Maid = Younger, prettier.... den die liao...

  
  Hahahaha....more china miad.....better...local wife will treat local husband even better...