Karamjit Singh thought he had hit the jackpot for himself and his aging widower-father when he was arranged to marry a Hong Kong-born Indian Punjabi woman and relocate to the cosmopolitan city. But his dreams of a happy marriage and life crumbled as soon as he moved in with his wife and her parents

Uddin thought he was tapping into a financial lifeline for his future and his family back in Bangladesh when he migrated to Singapore for construction work. He was promised a job as a construction site engineer that would pay a higher salary than what he was making in Bangladesh. But instead, he wa