"Today, you celebrate them. Tomorrow, you will go back to generalising them as cheats, liars and dirty."

- Singaporean social worker Suraendher Kumarr on a sinkhole incident

COMMENT | The quote that opens this piece is in reference to a news story about a group of migrant workers who rescued a woman in a sinkhole in Singapore.

As the BBC piece elaborates, this ignited a debate about how migrant workers in Singapore are treated.

In Malaysia, former finance minister Lim Guan Eng claimed that there was no need for a minimum wage or Employees Provident Fund (EPF) for existing migrant workers.

In response, former Klang MP Charles Santiago reminded Lim that...