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