Singapore Sentences 4 Chinese Strikers To Jail

[News_Editor]

A Singapore court sentenced four Chinese immigrant bus drivers on Monday to up to seven weeks in prison for instigating the city-state’s first labor strike in 26 years. Three of the men were sentenced to six weeks’ imprisonment. A fourth driver faced an additional charge of publicizing the strike in an online post and received a seven-week jail term for his larger role. Another driver was jailed for six weeks in December and has been deported. In the Nov. 26-27 strike, 171 Chinese bus drivers for a public transport company protested over being paid nearly a quarter less than their Malaysian colleagues. The strike disrupted about 5 percent of the country’s bus services.—AP

Source: Irrawaddy.org

[srn89]

Typical Malayan Racial prejudice, if you are not what they define as a TRUE MALAY expect to be treated as a 3rd or 4th Class Citizen.

[HeavyDrinker]

No. It's typical Facsist nonsense. No can you see why Thakky modelled Thailand on Singapore?

[LawrenceChee]

U guys probably never lived there before and know the majority race there is Chinese

They are jailing their own but yes they seem to have little patience for anyone that affects their model of efficiency

[endure]

Typical Malayan Racial prejudice, if you are not what they define as a TRUE MALAY expect to be treated as a 3rd or 4th Class Citizen.

80% of the population of Singapore is Chinese.