If my accountant has my taxes finished before next monday, Im going to Singapore and points forward including Thailand starting April 10th.
If not, Im going April 17th and most likely wont make it near where you are until after you have left.
Hope you are having a good time and you havent drank all the booze before I get there.
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VD, I fly into Singapore on April 20th which is a Friday. I was going to stay in Singapore for a while but I just may have to change my plans to fly up to Pattaya to meet up with you. Let me check flights from Singapore to there. Flights from Singapore to Phuket are something like $25 one way. If it's the same for Pattaya I will be visiting. I'll keep you posted.
VD:
I have flight plans to fly into Singapore on Friday, April 20th. If I wanted to get to Pattaya I would have to fly to Bangkok and take a taxi to Pattaya which is no big deal. But there are no affordable flights from Bangkok to Phuket so I would have to fly back to Singapore and then take a flight to Phuket. That's too much travel during my holiday so I think I'll have to meet up with you another time.
Thanks for trying to get things together.
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Here is an article that explains why so many Filipinas are here. They are hired as housemaids. Several of them are having problems getting sexually harrassed. Indonesia won't even let these women work there for this very reason.
It's pretty sad to see how poor some people are here. People who are willing to do menial labor because things are worse where they come from. This is especially true of people from Pakistan and Bangladesh. They are such a meek and mild people who are grateful for their jobs.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/08/23/2003268840
Allegations of Filipina abuse increasing in UAE
AP, MANILA
Tuesday, Aug 23, 2005, Page 5
More than 60 Filipina maids have sought refuge at the Philippine consulate in Dubai, living in a makeshift shelter there to escape beatings and sexual harassment and seek unpaid wages.
Filipinas have been flooding into the fast-growing city to work as maids for as little as US$160 a month.
But the influx has led to the number seeking shelter to double in recent weeks, with as many as five runaways a day fleeing to the consulate, labor attache Vicente Cabe said in Dubai.
"The Philippine government should immediately lodge a diplomatic protest and review our relations with the United Arab Emirates in view of new reports of abused Filipina workers," the Migrante organization said in a statement. "The Philippine government must take immediate action to teach host countries ... that it is not right to condone abusive employers and leave guest workers without a livelihood, without food and without justice."
Consular officials said some runaway maids show up with bruises or allege sexual assault.
Three men have been jailed in the Emirates this year for alleged rape of Filipina maids.
With so many reports of abuse, Indonesia recently banned unskilled women from working in the Gulf as housemaids. Philippine Consul-General Generoso Calonge said he wanted his government to do the same. Cabe estimated some 36,000 maids are among more than 200,000 Filipinos working in the Emirates. The maids work for local Arabs as well as expatriate European and Asian families.
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It's pretty sad to see how poor some people are here. People who are willing to do menial labor because things are worse where they come from. This is especially true of people from Pakistan and Bangladesh. They are such a meek and mild people who are grateful for their jobs.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/08/23/2003268840
Allegations of Filipina abuse increasing in UAE
AP, MANILA
Tuesday, Aug 23, 2005, Page 5
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A migrant workers' group yesterday urged the Philippine government to file a protest and review ties with the United Arab Emirates following reports that a rising number of Filipina maids are being abused by their employers in the Gulf country. More than 60 Filipina maids have sought refuge at the Philippine consulate in Dubai, living in a makeshift shelter there to escape beatings and sexual harassment and seek unpaid wages.
Filipinas have been flooding into the fast-growing city to work as maids for as little as US$160 a month.
But the influx has led to the number seeking shelter to double in recent weeks, with as many as five runaways a day fleeing to the consulate, labor attache Vicente Cabe said in Dubai.
"The Philippine government should immediately lodge a diplomatic protest and review our relations with the United Arab Emirates in view of new reports of abused Filipina workers," the Migrante organization said in a statement. "The Philippine government must take immediate action to teach host countries ... that it is not right to condone abusive employers and leave guest workers without a livelihood, without food and without justice."
Consular officials said some runaway maids show up with bruises or allege sexual assault.
Three men have been jailed in the Emirates this year for alleged rape of Filipina maids.
With so many reports of abuse, Indonesia recently banned unskilled women from working in the Gulf as housemaids. Philippine Consul-General Generoso Calonge said he wanted his government to do the same. Cabe estimated some 36,000 maids are among more than 200,000 Filipinos working in the Emirates. The maids work for local Arabs as well as expatriate European and Asian families.
This story has been viewed 1983 times.
