A DORMITORY for foreign workers may be half a kilometre away, but its problems could still end up on the doorsteps of its neighbours.

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If you can't beat them, join them... get a liquor license and sell beer in a stall downstairs.

the obvious solution is to educate foreigner workers on our social norms here and to observe the law. students routinely have orientation programmes and packages where they introduced to their new school life.

we should have a similar orientation program for foreign workers where seasoned foreign workers in Singapore can guide and mentor the new arrivals.

Mah Bow Tan should lead by example by having such dorms built next to his residence, short of which everything he has to say is rhetoric and has no place in the dictionary of an honest government.

This is obviously a case of very bad town planning. How could you house a workers' dorm within a residential estate? and please don't tell us Singapore is too congested. If it is some industrial estate in Tuas, that is fine because in the day the foreign workers go to work and in the evening, when the office workers vacate their place of work, that is when the foreign workers will go home.Also industrial park is situated quite far from housing estates.It's not that Singaporeans are very selfish and cannot accept other culture as so often mentioned in the papers by some Minister. Culture is one thing, but bad habits and lack of consideration for others is quite another.I think we should have one worker's dorm at Newton circus to drive home the point.

Build first a dorm next to a minister/MP's home. A dorm that will hold 1000 FWs. Only when that is done, and no minister/MP moves out, can anyone build any dorm for FWs in the heartlands or other private estates.

Mah BT should lead by example. Allow the building of a foreign worker dorm next to his big bungalow. Please show us how you "accommodate" these workers without your gurkhas guards!!!

Where is his house?

It's time Mah BT wakes up and walk out of his posh bungalow......walk around heartlanders' estate WITHOUT any pre-arrangement. Only then will he realise that S'pore is already very over-populated. Only then will he realise that his silly goal of 6.5m is really moronic. Wonder why we pay this guy $2+ million a year!!

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Just look for good class bungalow with gurkhas guards outside!!