The country will know in six months the causes of the Little India riot and whether “unhappiness among foreign workers” led to that. But, no matter whatever the findings are, a closer look at foreign worker issues in Singapore is mandated.
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Read MoreAfter a riot in Singapore's Little India this month, spotlight is on migrant labour woes in the city-state and whether to house them on offshore islands
Read MoreThe 160-member World Trade Organisation (WTO) reached its first ever worldwide trade reform deal at its 9th ministerial conference in Bali, Indonesia, on December 7. But what's there in it for Singapore is not clear, especially since the country is already negotiating Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal with 11 other nations.
Read MoreA call: Surprisingly, in an incident involving 400 rioters and about 300 police personnel, and as much as 27 arrests, the police is still calling for witnesses
Read MoreWilliam Wordsworth, the famous English poet, once wrote a poem The Rainbow, in which he said, “The child is the father of the man.” And for over a century, critics have debated what exactly he meant by this paradoxical statement.
Read MoreEver since Singapore acceded to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) in 1995, progress has been made in terms of all the 54 articles of the convention; few issues remain nevertheless
Read MoreWhile a majority of children in Singapore have better material comforts than their counterparts elsewhere, studies on their mental health are not so encouraging
Read MoreStrong advocacy and awareness campaigns have resulted in sales of shark's fin falling sharply in Singapore. Now is the time Singaporeans rise up and say no to cocoa produced by child slavery in the Western African nations. Join Newzzit in making chocolate free of child-slavery
Read MoreYogyakarta is the hub of Javanese culture in Indonesia, which has seamlessly integrated cultural traits of Hinduism and Buddhism, with Islam
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