No safe place for foreigners

Day off: Foreign women congregating along a walkway between Lucky Plaza and Tong Building in Singapore. — The Straits Times/ANN

SINGAPORE: Before Lucky Plaza became a popular hangout for Filipino maids, there was “Gulong Park”, where they gathered on weekends.

For more than a decade, the field behind Orchard MRT station where Ion Orchard now sits was a prime spot for Filipino maids to meet.