BBC News, 6 Dec 2012
A human rights group wants Singapore to drop the charges against four Chinese bus drivers accused of instigating a strike at transport firm SMRT.
They were charged after 171 drivers, all of whom were recruited from China, abstained from work last week over pay.
Singapore has already jailed one bus driver for six weeks and deported 29 others for staging the strike.
Strikes are illegal in Singapore for workers in essential services, unless the employer is given 14 days' notice.
However, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said that none of the conditions for a sector to be deemed essential "can reasonably apply to the situation of the Chinese bus drivers in Singapore". Full story
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