On Wednesday 14 November 2018, at 20.00 hrs., Royal Thai Embassy and Office of the Labour Affairs visited Thai workers at Sungei Tengah Lodge Dormitory to check on the living conditions of Thai workers residing in this dormitory.

Located in Choa Chu Kang, western part of Singapore, the dormitory is the largest worker dormitory in Singapore, which can accommodate up to 25,000 workers. The dormitory equipped with cooking and food preparation area, laundry area and common dining cum interacting area. It also has supermarket, recreational/multi-purpose room, nursing room, and movie theatre. Today, the dormitory has workers from different countries living together, mostly from India, Bangladesh and Myanmar. These workers are from marine, manufacturing and process sectors. There were about 30 Thai workers participated in this programme.

Officers from consular section also provided advices and consultation on consular services to the Thai workers. Simple blood pressure measurement was also conducted for the Thai workers as medical precautionary measure.