TOILING for long hours for meagre salaries and living in crowded dormitories, migrant construction workers have helped build modern-day Singapore. Yet they remain all but invisible to many in the affluent citystate.
Now an award-winning book by a Bangladeshi man is shining a rare light on the lives of labourers who have come in their thousands from poorer parts of Asia in search of a better future.
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