Ex-Minister of Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS), Vivian Balakrishnan said, “If you were a poor person, anywhere on this planet, Singapore is the one place, where you have a roof over your head, where you will have food on your table.”
Yet in 2010, when the government took wind of Al Jazeera’s arrival, a news station base in Qatar, they raided Changi Beach where most of the homeless temporary encamped. The latter were evicted from their only shelter and some were even fined $200. This was not reported in the news, except by alternative media, The Online Citizen, an online website covering socio-political news in Singapore. Full story
