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        "msgid": "rp-to-boost-training-for-its-maids-1447893297",
        "date": "2004-09-08 00:00:00",
        "title": "RP to boost training for its maids",
        "author": null,
        "source": "AP",
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        "topic": null,
        "summary": "RP to boost training for its maids PHILIPPINES: The Philippines will improve training for prospective Filipino maids to Hong Kong, including Cantonese language lessons, to help them compete with lower-paid counterparts from Indonesia, officials said on Tuesday.",
        "content": "<p>RP to boost training for its maids<\/p>\n<p>PHILIPPINES: The Philippines will improve training for<br>\nprospective Filipino maids to Hong Kong, including Cantonese<br>\nlanguage lessons, to help them compete with lower-paid<br>\ncounterparts from Indonesia, officials said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Labor Secretary Patricia Santo Tomas said a significant drop<br>\nin the deployment of Filipino maids to Hong Kong was \"saddening,<br>\nbut not alarming.\"<\/p>\n<p>She said the government-run Philippine Overseas Employment<br>\nAdministration would enhance training for Filipinos seeking<br>\nemployment as domestic helpers, including Cantonese training<br>\nsimilar to what Indonesian labor officials are providing.<\/p>\n<p>The program will be in collaboration with private recruitment<br>\nagencies, she added in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The labor department maintains a policy for Filipino workers<br>\n\"to compete on the basis of skills, not wages, including the low-<br>\nend domestic work in Hong Kong,\" Santo Tomas said.<\/p>\n<p>\"It cannot lower the wages of Filipino DHs (domestic helpers)<br>\nto the level being received by the Indonesians,\" she added. --AP<\/p>",
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