Singapore’s foreign domestic workers turning to sport to battle weight gain

Before Aye Aung made her first trip out of Myanmar to Singapore as a foreign domestic worker, the 25-year-old weighed slightly more than 40kg. But after working in Singapore for just over a year, she has put on some 15kg.“I was very skinny since I was young and people used to call me names. But now I eat much better here. My family will be very surprised and happy to see me getting fatter when I return,” she said.There are some 250,000 foreign domestic workers in the island nation, which relies…