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(10 Dec) - Singapore's first major riot in four decades is forcing the wealthy island to confront a stubborn but vexing question: how to treat low-paid foreign workers whose muscle underpins much of the economy but whose presence increasingly riles its citizens. Images of rioters overturning police cars, throwing garbage bins... 

By Jeanette Tan | Yahoo Newsroom – Wed, Dec 11, 2013 Whenever Roy Steven Danker was on standby as a riot police man in Singapore back in the 1960s, he would sleep in his boots waiting for the emergency bell to ring. Doing so was a small discomfort for him because when riots were raging – and they frequently did at that time... 

Little India riot (13 Dec) - In the aftermath of the riot in Little India, there have been some who have been quick on the draw in castigating foreign workers for their unruly mob behaviour, and lambasting the authorities for not having used enough force to quell the violence. Speculation was rife and hasty conclusions were...