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Muddy Singapore swallows China workers

Wanting to press for a resolution of his dispute with his employer, Xue Hanming, a construction worker originally from Jiangsu, China, called the Ministry of Manpower on 3 December 2008. "Ms Foo [Kim Hui] told me to go down to the ministry the next day," he told me.

On the 4th, he arrived and asked the reception clerk to inform Ms Foo of his presence. He was asked to sit in the waiting area.

After a long while with no sign of Foo, Xue began to wonder if something else was up. Fresh in his mind was the case of a fellow worker, Xue Chengming (no relation), who had been seized by security agents hired by their employer on the evening of 2 Dec. More on Xue Chengming's seizure below.

Fearing a similar fate, Xue decided to leave. Moments after stepping out, he saw his manager and a couple of security guards enter the Manpower Ministry building. It was a near miss.

It doesn't take much to put two and two together. Who would have alerted the employer that Xue Hanming was in the ministry building? Why did Foo never come down to meet someone with whom she herself had asked to come to the ministry, giving the impression that she was prepared to discuss the matter with the complainant? Is deceit in speech and action an ethical way for civil servants to act? Are government offices meant to be places for resolving problems in good faith and according to the law, or locations for entrapment?

But let's start from the beginning.
(source: Yawningbread.org)

Go to the source to read on if you are interested in this investigative article done up by Alex Au. It really shows how much dirt you can dig out of our system when you really want to. For goodness sake, we need transparency.