Very high standards : Singapore makes its stance against racism and fake news clear Very high standards : Singapore makes its stance against racism and fake news clear
Among growing concerns of racism against Indians in Singapore, the country has said it sets very high standards against racism or any bias.
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Singapore has made its stand against racism clear. (Source: mothership.sg)
“A small minority of Singapore’s residents is sowing racism against local and expatriate Indians in the same manner as the discrimination being imposed on Asian people in the United States,” warned the law and home affairs minister of Singapore, K. Shanmugam.
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said he was “disappointed and seriously concerned” by an alleged racist attack on a woman for not wearing her mask while brisk walking.
He said in a Facebook post on Monday that the attack “goes against everything our multiracial society stands for, and the mutual respect and racial harmony that we hold so dear”.
He added: “It harms our international reputation more than we realise.”
“I understand people being under stress because of Covid-19, and anxious about their jobs and families.
“But that does not justify racist attitudes and actions, much less physically abusing and assaulting someone because she belongs to a particular race, in this case, Indian.
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Singapore will fail if it allows racism, xenophobia: Senior minister K Shanmugam warns
The alleged assault of the woman, which is currently being investigated by the police, drew condemnation from several ministers.
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SINGAPORE: Singapore will fail if it allows racism and xenophobia to become prevalent, a senior minister warned here on Tuesday in response to an apparent hate crime incident involving a 55-year-old Indian-origin woman who was kicked and subjected to racial slurs for not wearing a mask while taking a brisk walk to work.
Hindocha Nita Vishnubhai, a private tutor, was brisk walking on Friday morning when a man approached her and asked her to pull the mask up from her chin before hurling
Tuesday, 11 May 2021 09:54 AM MYT
Hindocha Nita Vishnubhai was brisk-walking along Choa Chu Kang Drive on May 7, 2021, when a man approached her and asked her to pull her mask up from her chin. ― Picture via Instagram/Parveen Kaur
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SINGAPORE, May 11 Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and several other ministers took to Facebook yesterday (May 10) night to express their dismay and concern at the case of a man allegedly using racial slurs and kicking a 55-year-old woman, adding that there is no place for racism in Singapore.