Four hundred Cambodian women could be sent to Singapore as soon as the middle of this year to work as maids under a pilot scheme by the governments of Cambodia and Singapore.
The Post has obtained an internal circular the Singapore Ministry of Manpower sent to its labour agencies. In it, the ministry asks agencies keen to bring in Cambodian maids to submit proposals by February 18.
After they were trained, those foreign maids could begin work as soon as June this year, the circular says.
The project aims to study if Cambodian maids are suitable for Singapore employers. Full story
