1.   It was a balmy morning with high wispy clouds, and around the periphery of the garden the Filipino maids had gathered to pass the hours away.

2.   She had been convicted in Singapore of the murder of another Filipino maid and of a four-year-old Singaporean boy.

3.   When a Filipino maid and her ward were found dead, suspicion was directed away from a father-employer and toward Mrs. Contemplacion, another maid.

4.   Police on Friday detained a Pakistani student for allegedly raping his Filipino maid.

5.   Ramos also banned further employment of Filipino maids in Singapore amid a growing chill in relations between the two Southeast Asian allies.

6.   Ramos also banned the further deployment of Filipino maids to Singapore and ordered that maids wanting to return to the Philippines be fetched by a military cargo plane.

7.   A court has acquitted a Singapore woman accused of blinding her Filipino maid.

8.   A Filipino maid assaulted by her employer is suing for compensation, saying the courts imposed insufficient punishment on the Singaporean, a newspaper reported Friday.

9.   A Filipino maid was deported to the Philippines Tuesday for violating a law that forbids foreign workers from getting pregnant while working in Taiwan.

10.   A court ordered psychiatric testing Friday for a Filipino maid charged with fatally stabbing another maid.