My staff passed me the note “Sir, please contact this helper. She gave her 30 days notice and the employer wants to know what they can do.” So I called - no answer; then I tried to find her on What’sapp - no account. Finally I sent her a text message. At 1 a.m. I received her reply “Sorry for the late answer Sir. I’m just off work, I work 6 a.m. to 1 a.m. daily.”

I didn’t need to ask “Why are you resigning?” It’s obvious. Don’t you agree. Leave comment.

You might think that the more you clean, the less germy your home is.

That's what Laura-Isobel McCall, a biochemist at the University of Oklahoma, thought she'd find when she started comparing microbes between rural and urban homes in Peru and Brazil.

"We expected that all the microbes would actually become less diverse with urbanization, and that's not at all what we found for the fungi," she says.

In a new study in Nature Microbiology, McCall and her co-authors found that the fungal diversity was actually higher in urban homes, and it might be because of peoples' cleaning products and urban lifestyles.

Names marked with an asterisk* have been changed to protect identities.

Hong Kong, China - Maricel* and six friends, Filipina migrants who work as domestic helpers in Hong Kong, recently went on a day tour, travelling by bus across the border to Shenzhen, a Chinese city in the province of Guangdong known for its lavish malls and burgeoning tech scene.

Every Sunday, Hong Kong’s streets and public spaces fill with the city’s domestic helpers. An estimated 390,000 foreign workers, virtually all female and most from either the Philippines or Indonesia set up camp on bridges, walkways and in parks on their one day off.