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Guan Eng's views on migrants normalise 'ketuanan' dogma
"Today, you celebrate them. Tomorrow, you will go back to generalising them as cheats, liars and dirty."
- Singaporean social worker Suraendher Kumarr on a sinkhole incident
COMMENT | The quote that opens this piece is in reference to a news story about a group of migrant workers who rescued a woman in a sinkhole in Singapore.
As the BBC piece elaborates, this ignited a debate about how migrant workers in Singapore are treated.
In Malaysia, former finance minister Lim Guan Eng claimed that there was no need for a minimum wage or Employees Provident Fund (EPF) for existing migrant workers.
In response, former Klang MP Charles Santiago reminded Lim that...
