Singapore's Bangladeshi workers have eyes on home as COVID-19 shakes community

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SINGAPORE: With his shaggy grey beard, rose-coloured robe and a prayer cap that extends his tall frame, shopkeeper Tariqul Islam is an imposing ...

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SINGAPORE: With his shaggy grey beard, rose-coloured robe and a prayer cap that extends his tall frame, shopkeeper Tariqul Islam is an imposing figure on the stall-lined street that serves up home comforts to Singapore's Bangladeshi community.

Migrant workers mostly from Bangladesh wear masks as they enjoy a day off on a weekend in Singapore February 23, 2020. Picture taken Feb 23, 2020. "A lot of people have gone back," said Islam, 52, as a few customers wearing masks perused the fruit and vegetables spread outside his shop on Lembu Road in Singapore's Little India neighbourhood.

"We're staying for now, but maybe if the situation worsens then we will go back too," he said, speaking in Bengali alongside a few colleagues. Majidul Haq, 25, a construction worker who came back to Singapore on Monday after a one-month break in Bangladesh, said that his parents didn't want him to return but that he felt compelled because of his family's financial needs.

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