A Singapore non-profit organisation is in talks with the Myanmar government to set up a skills training centre in Myanmar for women who wish to be employed as domestic workers in Singapore, the Straits Times reported.

The Foreign Domestic Worker Association for Social Support and Training (Fast) plans to send trainers from Singapore to the centre to help Myanmar women acquire vocational skills such as cooking before they leave their home country.

The Myanmar government announced on April 26 that it was lifting a ban in place since 2014 that prevents its women from working as maids in Singapore, Thailand, Hong Kong and Macau.

According to Fast's estimates, Myanmar women make up 50,000, or about one-fifth, of the 250,000 maids in Singapore.