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PICTURE 1: Workers listen to a fuzzy broadcast about the Bangladesh elections last December. Mr Akter Hossain, 35, tunes in to BBC Bangladesh, which can be received only on the third-storey ledge of Kaki Bukit Hospital. -- ST PHOTOS: SAMUEL HE
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SAMUEL HE, 25, has been a photojournalist with The Straits Times for a year.
<TABLE width=200 align=left valign="top"><TBODY><TR><TD class=padr8><!-- Vodcast --><!-- Background Story --><DIV class=vclear id=related><DIV class=quote><DIV class=headline>CAPTIONS FOR PICTURES</DIV><DIV class=text>PICTURE 2 - ROAD RUNNERS: Drivers (from left) Zhao Xue Yang, 39; Yang Kuo, 29; Wei Ling Dong, 27; and Su Ce, 27; discuss the day's work in one of the hostel's smallest bedrooms.
All are from Ji Lin province in China. They say that Singapore is not very different from their hometown, which is a concrete jungle too. Their pastime includes listening to popular dance tracks and watching the latest movies via wireless Internet accounts on their laptops.</DIV><DIV class=text align=right>... more</DIV></DIV></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>Last December he chose to spend five weeks among foreign workers to get an insight into how Singapore's migrant workers live while they are here. Mr Shaik Mohamed, a director of Mini Environment Services (MES), which runs four foreign worker dormitories, agreed to offer him a bed space at Kaki Bukit Hostel at Kaki Bukit Avenue 4.
Mr Mohamed felt that this would give readers of The Straits Times a better understanding of what lies behind the walls of a dormitory for foreign workers.
He added: 'It would give foreign workers here an identity and allow people to see that they are no different than us.'
In words and pictures, Samuel describes his experience and the men he met and lived with. Read the Saturday Special Report and view more pictures in The Straits Times today.
Read Samuel He's blog on his experience here.
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PICTURE 1: Workers listen to a fuzzy broadcast about the Bangladesh elections last December. Mr Akter Hossain, 35, tunes in to BBC Bangladesh, which can be received only on the third-storey ledge of Kaki Bukit Hospital. -- ST PHOTOS: SAMUEL HE
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SAMUEL HE, 25, has been a photojournalist with The Straits Times for a year.
<TABLE width=200 align=left valign="top"><TBODY><TR><TD class=padr8><!-- Vodcast --><!-- Background Story --><DIV class=vclear id=related><DIV class=quote><DIV class=headline>CAPTIONS FOR PICTURES</DIV><DIV class=text>PICTURE 2 - ROAD RUNNERS: Drivers (from left) Zhao Xue Yang, 39; Yang Kuo, 29; Wei Ling Dong, 27; and Su Ce, 27; discuss the day's work in one of the hostel's smallest bedrooms.
All are from Ji Lin province in China. They say that Singapore is not very different from their hometown, which is a concrete jungle too. Their pastime includes listening to popular dance tracks and watching the latest movies via wireless Internet accounts on their laptops.</DIV><DIV class=text align=right>... more</DIV></DIV></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>Last December he chose to spend five weeks among foreign workers to get an insight into how Singapore's migrant workers live while they are here. Mr Shaik Mohamed, a director of Mini Environment Services (MES), which runs four foreign worker dormitories, agreed to offer him a bed space at Kaki Bukit Hostel at Kaki Bukit Avenue 4.
Mr Mohamed felt that this would give readers of The Straits Times a better understanding of what lies behind the walls of a dormitory for foreign workers.
He added: 'It would give foreign workers here an identity and allow people to see that they are no different than us.'
In words and pictures, Samuel describes his experience and the men he met and lived with. Read the Saturday Special Report and view more pictures in The Straits Times today.
Read Samuel He's blog on his experience here.
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