On Tues 18 Jul 2017, Mediacorp Channel U, 09:00pm, 分界线 Between
Two Worlds : A district with a sprawling landscape of low-lying
slums and garbage dumps, Tondo, Manila stands in stark contrast to
the capital's business district with its modern skyscrapers. Here,
the rich-poor divide is keenly felt among its residents who
straddle between the two worlds of haves and have-nots.
在亚细安经济增长最快的菲律宾，国内贫富差距却逐步拉大。在城市中，贫富的分界线变得更明显。对汤都贫民窟的居民而言，马尼拉的繁华与贫穷日复一日地呈现在自己面前。奢侈与浪费、成功与失败、迷惘与否就在一线之间.
The trailer featured a group of primary school children (no
doubt representative of tens of thousands of such poor children in
that part of the Philippines) living amongst a vast rubbish dumping
grounds, and their every meal is dug up from the leftover foods
(eg. a dirty piece of half-eaten leftover meat) from underneath the
rotting rubbish dumped there, the rubbish originating from the
neighboring rich cities of the Philippines. Similar scenarios (of
the outrageous unethical rich-poor divide) exist in Indonesia,
India, and many other cities in Asia, Africa, Central America,
etc.
And here in Singapore, every fast food restaurant, food court
and hawker center, you see so damn many Singaporeans wasting and
leaving behind half-plates of perfectly edible food, that would be
an unimaginable luxury for the poor starving children elsewhere in
the world.
