NO DECISION has been made about setting up a foreign worker dormitory in Serangoon Gardens, but it is hoped it will come in a couple of weeks.

National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan said it was impossible to segregate the foreign worker population - now at 577,000, excluding domestic maids - so Singaporeans must 'be prepared to see them and share with them our common spaces'.

The issue of housing foreign workers in residential areas was thrown into sharp relief two weeks ago when residents in Serangoon Gardens heard that the former Serangoon Gardens Technical School in their neighbourhood was to be converted into a dormitory for 1,000 foreign workers.

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