Filipino maids

Filipino maids

I found your article, headline 'Singapore to stop Filipino
maids inflow', which appeared in The Jakarta Post on Oct. 31, 1994
totally unnerving. At a glance, it immediately suggested that the
influx of Filipino maids to Singapore continues to be unabated,
which is grossly and absolutely wrong. In my opinion, it could
have been " Philippine Government requires Singapore Agencies
Security Bond to avoid maltreatment of its maids" since the real
issue is maltreatment rather than transmigration.

I am enclosing a clipping from the Singapore Straits Times
which dealt with a similar topic. Please review it carefully, and
learn how the host country even treated this subject with utmost
sensitivity. Really, I am appalled at how your writer treated the
issue with so much "discretion."

Lastly, I have been reading inane and unflattering news about
our country in your paper--like transvestites parading for a
beauty pageant crown. Do you have to play it up to get attention?
Or is it just our transvestites have more pulchritude in them
than your women?

MARIA CORAZON MALITAO

Jakarta

Note: Our apologies the heading of the article has caused a
misunderstanding. We had taken the news piece from a news agency
and had no intention of playing up news on the Philippines.

-- Editor