The Ministry of Labour has played down reports it is close to sending domestic workers to Singapore, a country that has only recently granted foreign maids a weekly day off.

The two counties’ governments had been in talks with Singapores’s Association of Employment Agencies about placing the Kingdom on a list of countries from which it can source maids, The Straits Times reported at the weekend.

Talks had begun some years ago, association president KJayaprema said, but had recently been revived, the paper reported.

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Source: (Phnom Penh Post – September 24, 2012)