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Posts tagged with "migrant workers"
Lack of funds threaten food aid project for migrant workers
Jul. 16 | Wong Chun Han Hundreds of jobless migrant workers may go hungry as the food aid programme they depend upon could fold due to a lack of funds. Some 450 men, forced out of work by injuries or non-payment of wages, are receiving free meals everyday from...
TOC Special Feature: Safer transport – what are we waiting for?
Jun. 28 | Story by Stephanie Chok / Video edited by Natalie Soh / Pictures by Stephanie Chok & Mykel Yee / Additional reporting by Patrick Chng / As a nation, we are wired, advanced and wealthy. So surely Singapore can find a better, safer yet financially feasible...
Ban transport of workers on backs of vehicles – TWC2
Jun. 25 | TWC2, an NGO which is involved in the welfare of migrant workers, shares its views on the recent traffic accidents involving workers who were ferried on the backs of vehicles. Three Chinese workers died when a lorry in which they were being carried skidded...
Grit and Grime: the migrant worker in Singapore cinema
Feb. 11 | By Ho Rui An How do we record memories, sensations and feelings? How do we adequately translate the fleeting and ineffable into a concrete expression of the most visceral human experiences? Capturing the “truth”, in its purest and most unadulterated...
Violation of foreign workers’ rights – in Singapore and Japan
Jan. 15 | Video of scuffle at Japan airport when some foreign workers were to be forceably repartriated Ralph Hosoki / additional input from Jolovan Wham During the late 1980s, the Japanese government was faced with a predicament. With depleted domestic sources...
The refugees of boom-and-bust
Nov. 10 | At TEDGlobal U, Cameron Sinclair shows the unreported cost of real estate megaprojects gone bust: thousands of migrant construction laborers left stranded and penniless. To his fellow architects, he says there is only one ethical response.
The case of Mr Asad Madber remains a mystery
Oct. 12 | Andrew Loh Manpower Ministry says it “does not reveal specific details of cases to the public.” On 20 September 2009, The Online Citizen reported the case of Bangladeshi worker, Mr Asad Madber Yeaz Uddin Madber. (See here.) He had been asked...
What the Little Pink Camera saw
Jul. 22 | Lynn Lee You’ve probably never heard of Sutha’s. Why would you? It’s just a little restaurant in Little India that serves, well, Indian food. The offerings are run-of-the-mill, the service, so-so. But for thousands of desperate migrant...
TOC Exclusive: Death of Bangladeshi worker in 2008
Jul. 3 | Andrew Loh with special thanks to “wildpoppies2009″ In December 2008, Bangladeshi worker Mohamad Kamaluddin, 28, was found dead in his dormitory at 468 Tagore Industrial Avenue. He was an employee of Gates Offshore, a ship repair and dormitory...
Avery Lodge – a “six-star dormitory for workers”
Apr. 18 | Andrew Loh “Very decent living. You can call it the six-star dormitory for workers,” Mr Eric Tan, our guide, told us when The Online Citizen visited the latest in dormitory living. “But for us, we’re not used to it,” Mr Tan added, as he showed...
Comparing abuse of foreign workers with…
Apr. 15 | Yes, the workers highlighted in Alphonsus’ photo essay blog entry were pitiable, but there are people suffering the world over just because they work illegally and get caught for it. In my sister’s case, she wasn’t even an illegal worker...
