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Again we see another protest by foreigners. 100 foreign workers today held a protest at MOM. But there was no police in sight to arrest them. Isn't this considered illegal assembly? Why are opposition members arrested and charged when only 4 of them protested, while no action is taken by the police when 100 foreigners hold public protests? Isn't this obvious that the govt is misusing the police force to target at opposition members. 
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Singapore/Story/STIStory_343777.html
Jobless foreign workers protest <!--10 min-->
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A group of around 100 Bangladeshi migrant workers gathered outside the Ministry of Manpower on Friday. -- ST PHOTO: LAU FOOK KONG
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A GROUP of around 100 Bangladeshi migrant workers gathered outside the Ministry of Manpower on Friday, urging the government to give them work and retrieve overdue pay after they were laid off by shipping firms.
A representative for the Bangladeshi workers said they were promised a monthly salary of at least $400 and a work permit of two years. But with no work or pay for four months, they felt they were in danger of being deported.
'We don't want to go back to Bangladesh. We take loan, we cannot pay, we die,' said Mr Rahman, who gave up his farming job in Bangladesh and took a loan of $7,000 from money lenders back home to pay an agent fee to work in Singapore.
Fifty workers gathered at the ministry earlier this month.
Local advocacy group Transient Workers Count Too said such gatherings would become more common in Singapore as workers were not being fed enough and were just sitting in dormitories, amid Singapore's worst ever recession.
'The mood is that we are seeing a lot of people coming forward - hundreds - they don't have work,' said the group's Shelley Thio. 'We are going to see a lot more of it - they are being shortchanged.'
Singapore's shipyard, construction and manufacturing industries were once red hot, hiring almost 800,000 migrants in 2007. But as the economy slid into recession last year, demand for labour dived and major projects were cancelled or delayed.
'If developers can't get money to pay construction companies, subcontractors down the line will get affected too,' said Mr Chew Chin Hui, who heads a local building firm. -- Reuters.
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Singapore/Story/STIStory_343777.html
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A group of around 100 Bangladeshi migrant workers gathered outside the Ministry of Manpower on Friday. -- ST PHOTO: LAU FOOK KONG
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A GROUP of around 100 Bangladeshi migrant workers gathered outside the Ministry of Manpower on Friday, urging the government to give them work and retrieve overdue pay after they were laid off by shipping firms.
A representative for the Bangladeshi workers said they were promised a monthly salary of at least $400 and a work permit of two years. But with no work or pay for four months, they felt they were in danger of being deported.
'We don't want to go back to Bangladesh. We take loan, we cannot pay, we die,' said Mr Rahman, who gave up his farming job in Bangladesh and took a loan of $7,000 from money lenders back home to pay an agent fee to work in Singapore.
Fifty workers gathered at the ministry earlier this month.
Local advocacy group Transient Workers Count Too said such gatherings would become more common in Singapore as workers were not being fed enough and were just sitting in dormitories, amid Singapore's worst ever recession.
'The mood is that we are seeing a lot of people coming forward - hundreds - they don't have work,' said the group's Shelley Thio. 'We are going to see a lot more of it - they are being shortchanged.'
Singapore's shipyard, construction and manufacturing industries were once red hot, hiring almost 800,000 migrants in 2007. But as the economy slid into recession last year, demand for labour dived and major projects were cancelled or delayed.
'If developers can't get money to pay construction companies, subcontractors down the line will get affected too,' said Mr Chew Chin Hui, who heads a local building firm. -- Reuters.
