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It was mid-afternoon on a sweltering Saturday when Raj, a laborer from northwest India, started feeling dizzy as he hauled heavy bags of concrete mix and sand on a construction
SINGAPORE - The founder of migrant worker rights group Humanitarian Organisation for Migration Economics (Home), Mrs Bridget Tan, died on Monday (April 18). She was 73. In a Facebook post on Monday evening, Home said Mrs Tan had suffered a stroke in February 2014. She was recuperating and working with non-profit groups in Batam. Home called Mrs Tan a pioneer.