HONG KONG: More than 200 Filipino maids protested outside their government's consulate-general here yesterday, denouncing its contract and passport fees as a threat to their families' livelihoods, police and an organiser said.
The workers chanted slogans criticising the HK$212.50 (RM103.50) charge for authenticating maid contracts and its HK$425 (RM207) passport fee, said protest organiser Eman Villanueva.
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