🏆 $1.20 for lunch: Workers settle for less to save money

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A sour smell rises as Bangladeshi Ibrahim Khalil, 31, opens his catered lunch, undoing the knots on two plastic bags of curry and lentils. The fish curry, exposed to the morning heat for half a day, has turned rancid again. Still, the curtain installation worker pours all the gravy over his pile of cold rice as he sits crosslegged on the floor, and begins tucking into his meal.

Written by
Matthew Loh,

Photos by
Alvin Lim, Olyvia Lim & Cornelius Tang
The Straits Times

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