Hong Kong (AFP) - A Hong Kong housewife was arrested for allegedly assaulting her Bangladeshi maid, police said Monday, in the latest in a series of cases highlighting the abuse of foreign domestic helpers.
The arrest of the 58-year-old mother-of-two, identified in media reports as Cheung Sau-kuen, comes just a week after thousands of domestic workers marched in the southern Chinese city to demand justice for an Indonesian maid allegedly assaulted by her employer.
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