News > Media Coverage
TWC2 featured in Chinese newspaper Lianhe Zaobao
Chinese-language morning daily Lianhe Zaobao devoted a half page to Transient Workers Count Too in their edition of Monday, October 31, 2011. Describing TWC2 as an organisation that extends a helping hand to migrant workers, the story opened with an interesting, yet important perspective: That fair treatment of guest workers
HOME lodges complaints about inadequate medical leave
Sunday Times, October 9, 2011, had a full-page feature about an issue that TWC2 has also noticed to be increasing in frequency -- doctors in private practice giving workers who have been injured in workplace accidents just two day's medical leave. The newspaper story headlined 'Lost part of finger, 2
Debts and dreams: Singapore’s migrant workers
International news network CNN carried a story titled Debts and dreams: Singapore's migrant workers on October 7, 2011. See http://edition.cnn.com/2011/10/07/business/singapore-migrants/index.html. Opening with a scene from TWC2's Cuff Road Project -- our daily soup kitchen -- the 1,600-word story focuses on the way male migrant workers are exploited and abused, touching
The New Paper covers Debbie Fordyce’s hospitality to injured workers
TWC2 Executive Committee member Debbie Fordyce was featured in a two-page spread in The New Paper, September 30, 2011. The story's focus was on her extending hospitality to injured migrant workers, letting them stay with her in your apartment till they have recovered or their cases resolved. You can read
Two employment agencies fined for keeping workers’ passports
Minister for Manpower Gan Kim Yong revealed in Parliament that two employment agencies were fined for refusing to return passports to migrant workers, reported Today on January 25, 2010. The ministry further reiterated to Mediacorp that "Employers should not retain their foreign workers' passports without their consent." However, it is
Safer transport for workers draws mixed reviews
By Er Yanbing, a student at NTU, and reproduced with her kind consent. The ramped up measures announced last month by the government to enhance the safety of workers transported on lorries have sparked mixed reactions among Singaporeans. These measures, which include requiring all lorries that double up as passenger
No comparison between lack of safety in worker transport and the standards in military transport
Some people who felt strongly about the issue for safe transport for workers started Project Humane Transport in 2009 to raise support for change. The media reported on migrant workers and decent transport, especially when accidents took place. Quite a few people wrote to the press to put forward their
Give the maid a break
This article appeared in ‘Today’ on August 3, 2006 and is reproduced as published. Give the maid a break The issue of a regular rest day needs to be legislated, not left to private contract John Gee A new standard contract for domestic workers and employers, produced by CaseTrust and
Human trafficking: The numbers don’t add up
Today, February 5, 2008, by Leong Wee Keat Link: http://www.todayonline.com/articles/236052.asp They are two different sets of statistics, painting two very different pictures. According to the Philippine Embassy, in an annual report recently submitted to the Philippine government, the number of Filipinos trafficked into Singapore and forced to work at red-light