1.   Whoopi Goldberg is funny without being forced in a refreshingly credible performance as Corrina Washington, an underemployed house maid.

2.   Abu Khajil is accused of selling babies of Sri Lankan house maids employed in Jordan, forging documents and official seals and the illegal possession of firearms.

3.   Among girls working as house maids, physical and sexual abuse is a common, Korayem said.

4.   Eighty percent of the half a million workers are women, nearly all of them working as house maids in the Middle East.

5.   Filipinos said Singapore should have considered purported new evidence that suggested Nicholas drowned in a bathtub and his enraged father killed the house maid, Della Maga.

6.   Kuwaitis will have to pay annual taxes on house maids and drivers they employ, and exit fees will be raised at airports.

7.   Most of them are hired from Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines and India to work on construction sites, docks and restaurants or as house maids.

8.   Seventy-five percent of Sri Lankans working abroad are women, nearly all of them as house maids in the Middle East.

9.   Seventy five percent of them are women, nearly all of them working as house maids in the Middle East.

10.   The agencies primarily served clients in Saudi Arabia, who used to import house maids and laborers from Sri Lanka through Bahrain because direct visa facilities were not available.