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Pink plastic flamingo faces extinction The day Mayor Dean Mazzarella turned 40, he got a surprise. "After I woke up and went out for my morning run, I came back and there were 40 pink flamingos in my front lawn," Mazzarella recalled. "Someone had put them there as a joke." 2006-10-29 Singapore cracks down on foreign maid agencies SINGAPORE - Singapore has begun a crackdown on housekeeping agencies that ask prospective maids to sit or stand in shop windows, saying the growing practice treats them like "commodities." 2003-10-15 HK's Leung faces criticism from businesses over maids HONG KONG - Businessmen protested on Wednesday to Hong Kong's Financial Secretary Antony Leung over a plan to tax employers of foreign domestic workers. 2003-03-12 Activities: [2003 HK Economic Struggles] Philippines temporarily bans maids going to Hong Kong MANILA - The Philippines temporarily banned its nationals from taking jobs as maids in Hong Kong on Wednesday after the Chinese territory cut the minimum wage for foreign domestic help. 2003-03-05 Activities: [2003 HK Economic Struggles] H.K. to tax foreign maids, lure investors with residency HONG KONG - The Hong Kong government unveiled Wednesday a blueprint to upgrade the quality of the city's population and to sustain economic growth with the introduction of initiatives to lure the rich and professionals from overseas while imposing a levy on foreign maids and tightening restrictions on new immigrants' claim to social services. 2003-03-02 Headlines Pink plastic flamingo faces extinction 2006-10-29 Singapore cracks down on foreign maid agencies 2003-10-15 HK's Leung faces criticism from businesses over maids 2003-03-12 Philippines temporarily bans maids going to Hong Kong 2003-03-05 H.K. to tax foreign maids, lure investors with residency 2003-03-02 First batch of Filipino maids to work in China 2003-01-13 Foreign Maids March Against Hong Kong Tax 2002-12-15 Foreign maids on tenterhooks as HK mulls pay cut 2002-12-13 Most-viewed Pink plastic flamingo faces extinction 2006-10-29

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