Women trained to work as domestic maids at a recruitment centre in Phnom Penh in 2011. The women were to have been sent to Malaysia until authorities intervened for their release from the centre. Photograph: Will Baxter/Phnom Penh Post

Four hundred Cambodian women could be sent to Singapore  as soon as the middle of this year to work as maids  under a pilot scheme by the governments of Cambodia and Singapore.

The Post has obtained an internal circular the Singapore Ministry of Manpower sent to its labour agencies. In it, the ministry asks agencies keen to bring in Cambodian maids to submit proposals by February 18.

After they were trained, those foreign maids could begin work as soon as June this year, the circular says.

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Source: (The Phnom Penh Post – January 04, 2013)