Foreign Workers making themselves heard

[Kee Chew]

In light of the massive difficulties the migrant worker community in Singapore is facing due to COVID-19, the Walt Disney Company announced on May 2 that it is bringing them some cheer in the form of free movies and TV shows.

Migrant workers can look forward to using the Hotstar streaming service immediately to access a wealth of content including more than 85,000 hours of blockbuster movies, cricket matches, Star India TV shows and live news on their mobile phones.


Content is available in nine languages for its more than 2,000 movies and 900 TV shows, and the service is available for free until Jul 21, 2020.

Disney is working with the Singapore government and migrant worker outreach groups to spread awareness of the initiative at a grassroots level.

The Hotstar app can currently only be downloaded on Android phones through the Google Play store, but Disney said in a statement that it will be made available for iPhones soon as well.

Hotstar is also only available to migrant workers for the time being but will soon be available for subscription to other Singapore residents.

According to Disney, the app recently attained more than 400 million downloads in India, which puts it as the top video streaming service in the country.

Uday Shankar, President of the Walt Disney Company APAC and Chairman, Star & Disney India, said, “We are honoured to work with the government to bring Hotstar to migrant workers in Singapore. In these unprecedented challenging times, we humbly hope that by offering the workers content that speak their language and reach their hearts, we can help lift their spirits and bring some moments of comfort and inspiration.”

 

[Kee Chew]

https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/heal...us-after-little-india-riot-singapore-promised

 

[Dr Christopher Cheok C S]

If i am a FW, i refer to fall sick in Singapore

186 Sri Lankans were repatriated from Singapore
https://menafn.com/1100124382/Sri-Lankans-stranded-in-Singapore-return

 

[jw5]

When Foreign Workers Making Themselves Heard becomes Foreign Workers Making Themselves Herd, they should not be repatriated.

If i am a FW, i refer to fall sick in Singapore

186 Sri Lankans were repatriated from Singapore
https://menafn.com/1100124382/Sri-Lankans-stranded-in-Singapore-return

 

[Kee Chew]

 

[Dr Christopher Cheok C S]

The situation is very bad now. FWs are KPKB over the smallest issue, want to eat better, room hot, no wind, cruise got aircon, got wind.
Here pain, there pain everywhere pain pain or feel sad also complain.

Worst are the MOM officers, so xia lan go around fugging the businesses. Gave they own set of rules to cover their assess (NOT APPLICABLE FOR MOE, ahahah such irony), just want businesses to acknowledge and endorse then it is not MOM's business.

CB Singapore bureaucracy.
MOM workplace safety officers are really loser shits.