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Treat migrant workers like any other human being, says Singapore lawyer

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The Migrant Workers’ Law Centre @ MWC's only full time lawyer, Cik Nur Shukrina Salam provides free consultations on employment issues, criminal cases and other legal matters. STRAITS TIMES PICTURE BY JASEL POH Growing up, Cik Nur Shukrina Salam’s world was never far from the migrant worker community, said Singapore-based The Straits Times yesterday. In Singapore, she regularly saw the workers volunteering at mosques during Hari Raya, and heard her father’s stories about those he had befriended around their estate who were not receiving their salaries. While studying law at Singapore Management University in 2020, Ms Shukrina and three schoolmates  created a free online salary calculator  that also guides migrant workers through employment disputes. Now, the 27-year-old is the only full-time lawyer at the Migrant Workers’ Law Centre @ MWC (MWLC), Singapore’s only legal clinic that opens five days a week for the migrant worker community. Set up by...
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Sepasang kekasih bergaduh — Masih ada cinta?

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Dekat di mata, jauh di hati💖 Hadi dan PAS boleh memainkan peranan penting sebagai pendamai Tampil di Parlimen hari ini sejak pemecatan dan penyingkirannya daripada Bersatu, sebuah portal berita politik yang lantang melaporkan Datuk Seri Hamzah Zainuddin (PN - Larut) enggan mengulas mengenai persoalan berhubung kedudukannya sebagai ketua pembangkang. Ditemui wartawan selepas taklimat mengenai dua Rang Undang-Undang (RUU) pindaan Perlembagaan, bekas timbalan presiden Bersatu itu hanya berkata, “kemudian”, seperti dipetik Malaysiakini . Ahli Parlimen Pendang, Datuk Haji Awang Solahuddin Hashim, yang berjalan bersama Hamzah, bagaimanapun menyahut pertanyaan media dan berkata dia akan jawab soalan itu. “Saya akan jawab soalan itu. Kami sudah selesaikan di peringkat PN, keputusan lain akan dibuat kemudian. “Kita tidak boleh membuat keputusan semua perkara pada masa yang sama,” kata Ahli Parlimen PAS itu merujuk kepada mesyuarat tergempar Majlis Tertinggi Perikatan Nasional (PN) semalam ya...
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Appreciating honest customers

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"First time in my life " : Restaurant owner surprised after family charged $2 for $200 lobsters return to pay balance  Mistakenly undercharged $198 (Malaysian Ringgit 612) for a lobster dish at a Siglap eatery, a family returned the next day to pay the correct amount, AsiaOne reported in Singapore yesterday. In a heartwarming Facebook post on Thursday 19 February, the owner of Cheng Ji Seafood Restaurant thanked the diners for their honesty. Owner Dai Xingying (transliteration) told Shin Min Daily News that she had wrongly keyed in the price of two small Australian lobsters as $2 (Malaysian Ringgit 6) instead of $200 (Malaysian Ringgit 620) when calculating the bill for the family of four. The error went unnoticed due to   the bustling Chinese New Year (CNY) crowd, and Dai did not find any discrepancies when recording their sales at the end of the day. To her surprise, two teenagers from the family returned on Thursday night to inform her that they had been undercharged. Th...
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