Remember the Burmese wedding video that shocked the world?
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Online information portal for Burmese laborers?
Posted on February 17, 2007 by dreamburo
Yangon Thu comments on a recent RFA story about Burmese migrant workers in Qatar, and adds information from her own experience.
Actually the same thing happens in Singapore. I have met many labourers who look for help because after selling all their belongings in Burma to pay an agent to help them get a job in Singapore that pays little more than 3 or 4 dollars an hour, many of them are cheated of their pay. Often, many of them do not get paid for months at a time or some, at all. Continue reading →
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