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, by Agence France-Presse
Bangladeshi migrant worker MD Sharif Uddin used to spend his days off with friends outside his cramped Singapore dormitory, but coronavirus curbs have for 18 months left him stuck inside during his spare time.
More than 300,000 migrant workers, many of them from South Asia, live in dorms in (…)
The fingers began pointing rather quickly, as one can expect in Singapore, when domestic and international media began publishing the figures and graphs that indicated that COVID-19 was tearing through the migrant worker dormitories. What happened next was a foregone conclusion: citizens (…)
, 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 (…)
, by BOYLE Peter
A pile of bags and clothing on an old shopfront verandah on Cuff Road in Singapore’s Little India is “home” to a group of about 50 migrant workers who have been spat out by an economy that relies heavily on so-called “guest workers”.
All are men from the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, lured to (…)
, 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 (…)
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