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living in denial !! still taking swipe at India when you know the majoriy of these migrant workers are Bangladeshis Singapore’s coronavirus outbreak leaves Bangladeshi workers poised to return home There are about 150,000 Bangladeshis in the city state, according to the high commission’s...

China Workers Dormitory In Singapore these are not my words but from your own Political writer Andrew Loh noted that the problem with poor living conditions among migrant workers was not “Well, what else is new? Same old problems for 20 years – crowded dorms, bad and inadequate facilities...

Rat restaurants, wet markets and repressive regimes It isn't foreigners' place to tell Chinese not to have wildlife markets but the world can ask that they minimize risks https://asiatimes.com/2020/04/rat-restaurants-wet-markets-repressive-regimes/

the guy standing at picture on the right , is south Asian not China Chinese ? Btw most housed in the dorms are Bangladeshis , not Indians

Stealing masks and stockpiling hydroxychloroquine — what America has become during this epidemic is deeply worrying Last night, in the most recent of several long and strange press conferences, President Trump announced that the United States had amassed 29 million pills of hydroxychloroquine...

Filthy, cramped dorms come to light as virus afflicts Singapore’s migrant workers Filthy floors, overflowing rubbish bins, and crowded dorms at migrant worker dormitories have exposed unsanitary conditions at privately run facilities where coronavirus infections have been surging."...

Death in the slum: India holds its breath as coronavirus spreads to tightly-packed shanty town Ashish Shukla is a senior journalist and geopolitical analyst based in India, author of ‘How United States Shot Humanity.’ 7 Apr, 2020 A series of coronavirus deaths in India’s biggest slum has...

'Dead city': Singapore closes workplaces in virus fight Singapore's usually bustling business district was almost deserted Tuesday as most workplaces in the city-state closed to stem the spread of the coronavirus after a surge in cases. The financial hub has won praise for using a tough regime...

Good Deed indeed and also thank China - for the infected Wuhan tourists to introduce the virus into Singapore Wuhan virus: Singapore confirms first imported case; another suspected case has positive preliminary test SINGAPORE — A Chinese national who arrived in Singapore on Jan 20 has tested...

Coronavirus Crisis: India lifts Restrictions on 24 Drug exports Amid ‘Intense Pressure from US’ New Delhi: India, the world's main supplier of generic drugs, has lifted restrictions on the export of 24 pharmaceutical ingredients and medicines made from them, the government said in a statement."...

not surprising, happened in Singapore too, resulting in shortage of face masks for local Singaporeans - note dates of these articles Chinese nationals living in Singapore buy masks to send back home SINGAPORE (January 24) - Some Chinese nationals living in Singapore are buying masks to send...

Mumbai hospital shut after surge in COVID-19 cases among staff MUMBAI: A major private hospital in Mumbai was shut to new patients and declared a COVID-19 containment zone on Monday (Apr 6) after 26 nurses and three doctors tested positive, an official said. Mumbai city authority spokesman...

Coronavirus cases in Singapore rise, 20,000 workers quarantined in dorms dubbed 'recipe for disaster' Tens of thousands of migrant workers in Singapore are now under quarantine in their dormitories after a rise in coronavirus infections as concern grows that the cramped quarters may become a...

In a scathing open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, actor and Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) Chief Kamal Haasan questioned if the Union government wanted to be a ‘balcony government only for the balcony people’. His reference was based on the implementation of the 21-day lockdown by the Prime...

Holding fire torches in their hands, BJP MLA Raja Singh and his followers raised slogans of “go back, go back, Chinese virus go back”. It appears that Tiger Raja Singh, a BJP MLA from Goshamahal in Telangana did not completely hear Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech on Friday. For those...

Dr K K Agarwal Ex President Indian Medical Association explains the science behind lighting lamps on 5th April 9 pm

Modi - light lamps after 9 pm Bhakts 5th April 9 pm

For Sunday’s ‘light the lamp’ initiative, PM Modi sets the ground rule Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday urged people to “challenge the darkness” of the coronavirus by lighting a lamp, torch or mobile flashlight on Sunday...

For India’s Laborers, Coronavirus Lockdown Is an Order to Starve Despite leaders’ decrees on staying home, laborers who live hand-to-mouth say they have no choice but to keep hitting the streets. Here are their stories. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/world/asia/coronavirus-india-lockdown.html