HONG KONG: Thousands of foreign workers poured onto the streets of downtown Hong Kong yesterday in the largest protest so far against government plans to levy a new tax and cut wages for foreign nationals working as maids.
Migrant workers from the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand and Sri Lanka chanted slogans and waved banners declaring No to Levy, No to Wage Cuts as they marched from Victoria Park to the government headquarters in the financial district of Central.
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