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With fewer public spaces for Hong Kongโ€™s helpers, where can they go to unwind?

On a recent stormy Sunday, domestic helpers on their weekly day off were seen hastily erecting tents and laying out plastic sheets under footbridges and inside transport hubs in Hong Kongโ€™s Tsuen Wan district as they sought refuge from the downpour. Dozens of tents were pitched around the pillars of the footbridges, while other groups crowded onto narrow concrete platforms inside a bus terminus. Many leaned against metal railings or sat on the ground, laying down blankets and carving out spaces...

Hong Kong helpers cry out as popular garden in Central to close for underpass work

A Hong Kong migrant workersโ€™ group has urged authorities to expand a pedestrian area in Central on Sundays, as a section of a landmark garden that serves as a popular gathering spot for domestic helpers will temporarily close for the construction of a pedestrian underpass. The subway is part of the tender requirements for a Central harbourfront site secured by developer Henderson Land Development. It will run below Statue Square Gardens and connect the Central MTR station at Chater Road to the...

Telangana NRI panel studies Andhra Pradeshโ€™s welfare model for migrant workers

Andhra Pradesh has been working extensively for the welfare of overseas residents and resolving issues, Minister Kondapalli Srinivas informs the visiting team