As South Korea struggles to get young people interested in marriage and kids, authorities are trying a new tack: importing foreign workers to carry some of the household burden. The government on ...

Foreign domestic workers hired under a South Korean government pilot scheme were paid significantly below market rates and frequently required to perform tasks beyond their official job descriptions, ...

A four-month-old baby suffered a brain haemorrhage and is currently in intensive care. The photo, with emojis obscuring the baby’s face, was posted on Facebook by his father on Jan 20, 2026. (Photo: ...

Eleven domestic workers have been arrested in Hong Kong on suspicion of "child destruction" and illegal abortions, police have said. The women, in their 30s and 40s, were rounded up after one was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A volunteer gathers information from Fita, a 49-year-old Indonesian domestic worker who escaped the deadly fire at Wang Fuk Court ...

In this Oct. 18, 2021, file photo, women stand beside a sign about hiring domestic helpers to work overseas outside an office in Manila, Philippines. “Korea is so screwed, wow!” This remark from ...

MANILA/HONG KONG, Dec 1 (Reuters) - A Filipino domestic helper has been hailed as a hero after emerging from a deadly Hong Kong tower fire with her employer's three-month-old baby and elderly mother.

Koh Ewe (Koyu) was a reporter for TIME based in Singapore. Former domestic worker Kartika Puspitasari poses for a portrait at Bethune House, a shelter operated by Mission for Migrant Workers, in Hong ...