SINGAPORE – A confluence of factors had led to delays in moving Covid-19-positive workers living in the Westlite Jalan Tukang dormitory to off-site care and…
SINGAPORE – For many of the 8,000 migrant workers living in PPT Lodge 1B dormitory, Mr Letchumanan Muralidharan, 47, has been their translator, mediator and…
SINGAPORE – In Little India, jewellers that could count on five-digit takings each weekend are struggling to hold on, while a previously vibrant community space…
SINGAPORE – Spaces like Little India mean more than the sum of its parts to the migrant workers who frequent the area. They are, of…
SINGAPORE – For the past year and a half, shopkeepers in Little India have been hit hard by a drastic fall in income as migrant…
SINGAPORE – For the past 16 months, since movement within migrant workers’ dormitories began to be restricted, one man has been trying to keep his…
SINGAPORE – A new initiative to pay random visits to employers and their foreign domestic workers has uncovered some instances of employers illegally holding on…
SINGAPORE – Singapore would have been hit hard by a shortfall of at least 100,000 workers and 30,000 domestic workers if migrant workers had not…
When the Covid-19 outbreak hit dormitories in Singapore last year, conditions in the living quarters were pinpointed as a reason for the spike in cases.…
SINGAPORE – Covid-19 cases in migrant worker dormitories had been close to zero for months and plans were in place for rules to be relaxed,…
SINGAPORE – A second migrant worker who was travelling in the back of a lorry that crashed into a stationary tipper truck on the Pan-Island…
SINGAPORE – With Covid-19 still circulating in Singapore, it will be too much of a risk to have migrant workers from dormitories mixing freely with…
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday expressed his thanks to migrant workers in Singapore for their trust, patience and support despite having gone through a…