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• Singapore: Migrant workers

  Helpers “sold”: Anger at Singapore ads offering Indonesian maids for sale

  19 September 2018, by AFP

  Online ads in Singapore offering Indonesian maids for sale were Wednesday condemned as “unjust and demeaning”, in a rare flare-up of tensions between the neighbours over domestic helpers.
  Singapore is home to almost 250,000 maids, mostly from poor parts of Indonesia or the Philippines, who head (...)

• Singapore: Migrant workers

  Boon Siwala: The Life of a Thai Migrant Worker in Singapore

  December 1997, by YIMPRASERT Junya Lek

  In 1992, Boon Siwala, from a village in Naklang District, Nongbua Lampoo Province, was persuaded by his relative to go to work in Singapore. Boon and six of his friends from the village agreed to go to work in Singapore. Though they all knew that they would work illegally, the poverty of their (...)