{"id":31191,"date":"2012-12-01T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-01T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=31191 "},"modified":"2012-12-01T15:45:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-01T15:45:00","slug":"31191-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=31191","title":{"rendered":"Singapore to deport 29 Chinese bus drivers involved in city-state\\&#8217;s first strike in 26 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Published December 01, 2012<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>SINGAPORE &#8211; &nbsp;Singapore&#8217;s government says it is deporting 29 Chinese immigrant bus drivers who were involved in the city-state&#8217;s first strike in 26 years.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>The Ministry of Manpower also said in a statement Saturday that a fifth driver will be charged with instigating the strike. Four others were arrested and charged on Thursday. They face up to a year in prison if found guilty.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>The ministry said a police investigation found that the drivers had been absent from work without reason.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Strikes are almost unheard of in Singapore. The last was in 1986 by shipyard workers.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Some 171 Chinese bus drivers went on strike last Monday in protest at being paid nearly a quarter less than Malaysian bus drivers who work for the same transport company. The strike was over by Wednesday.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><span style=\"color: #2d2d2d; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Lucida Grande', 'Segoe UI', Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;\">Continue reading the<\/span><strong style=\"color: #2d2d2d; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Lucida Grande', 'Segoe UI', Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2012\/12\/01\/singapore-to-deport-2-chinese-bus-drivers-involved-in-city-state-first-strike\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #034af3; text-decoration: initial;\">&nbsp;original article.&nbsp;<\/a><\/strong><br \/><div>&nbsp;<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;div&gt;Singapore&#39;s government says it is deporting 29 Chinese immigrant bus drivers who were involved in the city-state&#39;s first strike in 26 years.&lt;\/div&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ChinaHumanRights","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}