UNDERAGE girls in Myanmar are being recruited to work as maids in Singapore, said agents and recruiters.
The teenagers, some as young as 16, have gone through immigration checkpoints using passports with false ages.
Since 2005, the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) has required all foreign maids who work in Singapore to be at least 23 years old.
It is not known how many underage Myanmar maids are here but anecdotal evidence from agents and recruiters suggests that the numbers are rising. Full story
