M&C, 30 Mar 2009, Kai Portmann
Singapore - Abdur Rouf Abdul Mannan is furious with his boss. The 26-year-old Bangladeshi earns 16 Singapore dollars, or about 11 US dollars, a day as a worker at a Singapore shipyard.
'My boss promised he'll give me 18 dollars after I finished training,' Abdur Rouf said. 'I passed training, but the boss didn't live up to his promise.'
As the global economic downturn hits the city-state hard, conditions for about 750,000 migrant workers in Singapore, who already draw low pay, have become harsher.
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