A kind resident took in her neighbour after a fire in the latter’s flat, allowing the family of three to lodge in her home temporarily. The fire had broken out in the second-storey flat at Block 372, Jurong East Street 32…
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Minister Lawrence Wong and his cabinet colleagues don’t live in 99-year lease HDB flats. With their millions, chances are, they would be living in landed free-hold properties in choice areas. Their properties are for keeps which they can pass on…
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A Singaporean couple – Lim Choon Hong and his wife Chong Sui Foon – were jailed on Monday (27 March) for starving their Filipina domestic worker over a period of 15 months between 2013 and 2014. Lim, a trader, was…
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The Ministry of Manpower has a “feedback” system which allows an employer to recommend that a worker not be employed here if s/he is undesirable or “bad”. I have always been opposed to this because MOM’s decision to accept such…
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Singapore Malays International Pageant chose H.O.M.E (Humanitarian Organisation for Migration Economics) a non profit organisation as their beneficiary for their finalist charity community service day. HOME SHELTER currently assist 100 migrant workers who are genuinely abused and exploited by their employers,…
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