Bangladeshi’s diary spotlights Singapore migrant struggles

SINGAPORE: Toiling for long hours for meagre salaries and living in crowded dormitories, migrant construction workers have helped build modern-day Singapore but remain all but invisible to many in the affluent city-state.

Now an award-winning book by a Bangladeshi man is shining a rare light on the lives of laborers who have come in their thousands from poorer parts of Asia in search of a better future.