Tue, 21-Oct-2025

‘Like prison’: Singapore migrant workers suffer under Covid curbs

SINGAPORE: Bangladeshi migrant worker MD Sharif Uddin used to spend his days off with friends outside his cramped Singapore dormitory, but coronavirus curbs have for 18 months left him stuck inside during his spare time. More than 300,000 migrant workers, many of them from South Asia, live in dorms in the prosperous city-state, where they … Read more

Sleeping Migrant workers Run Over by Train in India

train in India

Sixteen people run by a freight train in the state of Maharashtra. Indian police have ordered an investigation. People who died on the track were migrant workers and they had fallen asleep on the tracks. Special trains have been organized in India for migrants to go to their home villages. However, tens of thousands of … Read more