Home »
Posts tagged with "foreign workers"
Posts tagged with "foreign workers"
Dec. 20 | The following is the latest update by the good-hearted Singaporean (GHS) who’s been helping out and keeping tab on the situation with the 179 stranded Bangladeshi workers. Read his earlier update here. TOC thanks GHS for providing us with the updates.
I...
Dec. 18 | Andrew Loh
This is an update on the situation with the 179 Bangladeshi workers who were reported by TOC to have been abandoned by their employers. The following update is provided by a good-hearted Singaporean who was moved by their plight to help out...
Dec. 17 | Boris Chan
Some 179 foreign workers from Bangladesh fear they may not have a place to sleep or food to eat in the coming days. Their employer has basically abandoned them and they are being evicted from their dormitory in two days.
The Online Citizen...
Nov. 9 | If we just send away the foreign workers now, it will do us harm. For example – companies which are already in difficulty and they hire half foreign workers and half Singaporeans and you tell them that foreign workers must go out. And when you take...
Nov. 9 | Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong:
On S’pore having a minority-race Prime Minister:
“Can we one day have a non-Chinese, a Malay-Muslim Prime Minister? It’s possible. Will it happen soon? I don’t think so because finally you have to win votes...
Nov. 3 | From Channel 5 news report:
Oct. 23 | Joel Tan / Writer
The minute something interesting and distinctive begins to develop in the heart of town, we pull out our guns and go “shoot the eyesore”.
A few weeks ago, I opened up the Lifestyle section of the Straits Times on Sunday to read...
Sep. 6 | With the current controversy over the issue of converting Serangoon Gardens Technical School into a dormitory for foreign workers, The Online Citizen decided to pay a visit to the area. We hope to give our readers an idea of what residents there might...