What's being said on facebook.com/southchinamorningpost
On the Social Welfare Department's admission that its contractor put asylum seekers in accommodation that is unfit for habitation, and the ordeal of Indonesian domestic helper Kartika Puspitasari at the hands of her two employers who were sentenced to jail for abusing her.
Nothing to do with skin colour. HK has always had such problems since the early days of refugees from Indochina in the 1970/80s. It's always a matter of resources availability, planning and priorities.
Going to prison for life as Bo Xilai is doing seems a better fate than these people face.
How about putting them in a three-star hotel at HK taxpayers' expense. Even those living in partitioned flats don't complain.
Just a small amount of HK's ample resources would improve the lot of these people by a great extent. The contractor just didn't want to spend any money at all.
You should be grateful for whatever is given, no one owes you a living.
If you treat the domestic helpers well as members of your families, they will serve you equally.
Do we know why that couple behaved that way? Most extraordinary.
I think there should be [a] monthly online/by phone check-in system where all domestic helpers should call in or log in with their secret passwords, and if one person hasn't checked in for a period of time then it should alert HK police who should pay them a visit.
