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The Big Read: To stop abuse of foreign domestic workers, stop the power imbalance
While the recent spate of abuse cases have raised eyebrows all around, the issue has long dogged the nation since domestic helpers become a familiar sight in many a Singaporean household. (Photo: TODAY/Ooi Boon Keong)
10 May 2021 06:20AM) Share this content
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SINGAPORE: Whenever her employer gets angry with Ruby (not her real name) for supposedly not following her instructions, she would threaten to hit the domestic worker.
April 26, 2021
The police said they were alerted to Saturday s incident, near The Rail Mall, at around 7.20am.
Lianhe Zaobao
SINGAPORE - Ten men were taken to hospital after an accident involving a lorry in Upper Bukit Timah Road on Saturday morning (April 24).
The 35-year-old driver and nine passengers, understood to be foreign workers, were taken conscious to hospital, said the police.
The accident came just four days after another lorry carrying foreign workers collided with a stationary tipper truck on the Pan-Island Expressway early Tuesday morning. Two workers died in that incident and 15 were injured.
The police said they were alerted to Saturday s incident, near The Rail Mall, at around 7.20am.
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10 men taken to hospital after second lorry crash in four days
Saturday s Upper Bukit Timah Road incident which involved foreign workers has renewed calls to improve the safety of such workers. PHOTO: LIANHE ZAOBAO
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Ten men were taken to hospital after an accident involving a lorry in Upper Bukit Timah Road on Saturday morning.
The 35-year-old driver and nine passengers, understood to be foreign workers, were taken conscious to hospital, said the police.
The accident came four days after another lorry carrying foreign workers hit a stationary tipper truck on the Pan-Island Expressway. Two workers died in that incident and 15 were injured.
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Apr 20, 2021
It’s been a year since migrant workers in Singapore were confined to dormitories to prevent an outbreak of COVID-19 in their ranks from spreading across the island. Now, weeks after new cases among the laborers dropped to almost zero and thousands have received vaccinations, some wonder how long it will take for restrictions to end.
“I don’t have any freedom to move around … only allowed to leave from the dorm to worksite, dorm to worksite,” said Arif, a 30-year-old worker from Bangladesh who has been living in housing on the same construction site since the pandemic began. “Right now my only feeling is I want to go home to see my family, but I haven’t got the vaccination. I worry if I go home, I cannot come back.”