20 workers, 2 bedrooms
Bukit Batok 3-room flat houses foreign workers. Boss says stay is 'temporary'
By Arul John
June 28, 2010
All the space in the three-room HDB flat was used.
The messy Bukit Batok flat was home to 20 Indian, Bangladeshi and Chinese nationals.
The workers – all employees of Qian Yang Shipping – said they moved into the flat in May and were due to move to new quarters at the end of this month.
When The New Paper visited the flat last Monday, five workers were cooking dinner in the kitchen and one was asleep in one of the bedrooms.
Mr Suman Miah, 22, who is from Bangladesh, said he and his fellow workers have had no complaints from the neighbours.
When contacted that evening, the workers' boss, Mr Tang told The New Paper that the flat was a "temporary arrangement" and the workers would move to their new quarters by the end of this month.
He said they had stayed in the flat for only a few days, and promptly ended the call.
But later that night, the workers were told to move out, and the next morning, they had to move their belongings to the void deck, Shin Min Daily News reported.
Bukit Batok 3-room flat houses foreign workers. Boss says stay is 'temporary'
By Arul John
June 28, 2010
All the space in the three-room HDB flat was used.
The messy Bukit Batok flat was home to 20 Indian, Bangladeshi and Chinese nationals.
The workers – all employees of Qian Yang Shipping – said they moved into the flat in May and were due to move to new quarters at the end of this month.
When The New Paper visited the flat last Monday, five workers were cooking dinner in the kitchen and one was asleep in one of the bedrooms.
Mr Suman Miah, 22, who is from Bangladesh, said he and his fellow workers have had no complaints from the neighbours.
When contacted that evening, the workers' boss, Mr Tang told The New Paper that the flat was a "temporary arrangement" and the workers would move to their new quarters by the end of this month.
He said they had stayed in the flat for only a few days, and promptly ended the call.
But later that night, the workers were told to move out, and the next morning, they had to move their belongings to the void deck, Shin Min Daily News reported.
