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Home affairs select committee chairman Keith Vaz (left) greets arrivals at Luton airport, including Victor Spiresau (right), as they arrive on New Year's Day. (Photo: Jennifer Cockerell/PA) (2 Jan) - Cheapskate employers are importing what too often looks like serf-labour instead of hiring ethically at home. Hello, Victor... 

Lightning from an evening thunderstorm flickers across the sky in Singapore's Little India district. Alan Huffman (2 Jan 2014) SINGAPORE -- Khan sits in an open-air café in this Southeast Asian island’s Little India district, twisting uncomfortably in his chair due to persistent pain from a back injury he suffered on a construction... 

Can Singapore wean itself off cheap foreign labour? (29 Dec) - Earlier this month, something shattered Singapore’s calm that had been building for years, if not decades, and the wonder was that the streets had not exploded sooner. Like the two EDSA People Power revolutions, the freedom-loving masses toppling the Berlin Wall,...