Indonesia’s self-taught dental workers say they fill a need in society – just not in Hong Kong Muhammad Tohir’s dental shop in central Jakarta, Indonesia. Photo: SCMP/Resty Woro Yuniar
When four Indonesian domestic workers in Hong Kong were arrested last month for breaching the conditions of their stay and offering dental services despite having no training, it caused a stir.
The four had rented a room on their days off to offer treatments such as scaling, trimming, fillings and braces - charging between HK$200 and HK$2,000 - to fellow Indonesians.
In comments to the media, a Hong Kong Immigration Department spokesman said practising dentistry without registration was a threat to health and safety, in a time of Covid-19.
Author Grace Talusan gives voice to the Filipino immigrant experience in the US Writer Grace Talusan. Photo: Alonso Nichols
Marybelle is a Filipino domestic helper who lives with Lincoln Chow, a Chinese-American professor, and Jing, a Hong Kong-born homemaker who yearns for a child she is not able to have. Marybelle earns money not only from the Chows, but also from weekends spent cleaning the rooms of local students. Her hard-earned dollars transform into large remittances home to her mother and daughter in Manila. In turn, her mother mails Marybelle photos of the sprawling family s newborn babies and of relatives at funerals - a token connection to family milestones that happen while she toils, several continents and oceans away.
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Solution to case of Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou can be found Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou arrives at the Supreme Court in Vancouver, Canada, on April 19. Photo: Bloomberg
In the matter of Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou, Senator Yuen Pau Woo, leader of the Independent Senators Group in Canada, is urging the government to use Canada s Extradition Act which specifically allows the justice minister to terminate extradition proceedings at any time.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his justice minister, David Lametti, have maintained that the minister may intervene only after the court has ruled on the Meng case.
We are Bellingcat - An Intelligence Agency for the People by Eliot Higgins. Bloomsbury Newspapers are no longer the first rough draft of history - that's now to be found on social media. Such is the view of Eliot Higgins, founder of Bellingcat, a fiercely independent information-gathering organisation that has made headlines worldwide by finding answers to questions that neither cash-strapped traditional newsrooms nor deep-pocketed state.