The plight of South Asian migrant workers - 20 Sep 08

As a Singaporean, this is way too common. The Ministry of Manpower is highly reluctant to acknowledge the blood and slavery that the country builds its progress on. Please tell people about it - that Singapore, like many rich countries, thrive on slavery. And we need to help these people based on human compassion

thanks to Aljazeera for exposing this, but one has to think why do the govt. of south asian countries not build their own countries so that their citizens don`t feel the need to leave their homeland. South Asian govt.s are just as at fault as the countries that are taking advantage of them....

I'm sure these countries would choose not to be in poverty if they could. Poverty is not a choice.

but i think centuries of caste system brought about this level of poverty, even africa is not as bad as india or bangladesh or any of those countries

You'll never know ,,how many are Criminals wanted in there own Country!!!

sad how poor people get taken advantage of in such an inhuman way. Keep up the good work Al Jazeera. At the very least you're spreading awareness of the injustices happening in major Asian cities...

I don't get it though... why would they just make the workers sit there for no reason? it's absurd!

Respect for you, Mr. Birtley.

Primary School Kid and Secondary Sch Kid in Singapore always talk like that.