Fred Rosen

COMMENT It seems likely they may be a group with historically porous boundaries.

COMMENT A transient population may stay, leave its marks and then move on.

COMMENT Taking part in the event was akin to dancing under a giant showerhead.

COMMENT In fact, Facebook turns out to be the best possible marriage broker.

COMMENT Many M'sians will never live through what Kyaw has experienced.

COMMENT ‘Trafficking is often enmeshed with many other very human issues.’   

COMMENT It is played informally by various groups of immigrant workers.

COMMENT Bukit Bintang is the hub from where people disperse.

FEATURE Mapui, a Myanmar refugee in Bukit Bintang, is leaving for Oklahoma. 

COMMENT Football matches provide entertainment for migrant workers.

COMMENT Business clearly has been given a free hand at the expense of workers.

COMMENT Everybody loses in the end in an exploitative society, even rent-seekers.

COMMENT And much of historic Malacca, too, is being torn apart.

COMMENT Fear of the police is pervasive among refugee and other communities of foreign workers, and extortion is very common as well.

FOCUS Pudu and Bukit Bintang are ideal areas to open a small business because of large number of Myanmar residents.

His trouble and tears provide a heartbreaking insight into the suffering of ‘imported’ workers who are played out by agents.

FOCUS Carl is clearly a figure of authority as his friends from Myanmar cannot act as an interpreter to save their lives.

COMMENT Jack, a refugee from Myammar, leaves for a small town in the US after years of working in Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur.