Filipina maid inherits $4M from employer 07/22/2010

Filipina maid inherits $4M from employer

07/22/2010 Singapore — A devoted Filipina maid provided a refreshing twist to the almost daily reports of abuse on an estimated 9 million Filipinos working overseas, after she inherited $6 million Singapore (more than $4 million US) from her late employer after more than 20 years of service, a newspaper report said yesterday. “I am the luckiest maid in Singapore, with or without the money,” the 47-year-old single woman — identified only by the pseudonym “Christine” — told the Straits Times in an interview. The maid refused to be named in public for fear of possible threats to her or members of her family’s life in the impoverished Philippines, where wealthy people have been kidnapped for ransom and some killed by their abductors. The windfall, including cash and a luxury apartment near the Orchard Road shopping belt, came from the estate of her employer Quek Kai Miew, a medical doctor and philanthropist who died last year at 66. The maid had also taken care of the doctor’s late mother, and was told that she would be a beneficiary of her employer’s will when it was drawn up in 2008. “There were no secrets between us. I was not surprised at all when she told me how much I was going to get,” the maid recalled..... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100722hed6.html

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