Indian Express, 12 Feb 2012
A Singapore bank's 'Bollywood- theme' party, featuring Chinese with dark painted faces, raised sharp reactions from netizens who termed it offensive and discriminatory, prompting the bank to issue an apology.
Pictures of the United Overseas Bank's Chinese staff with painted black faces and dressed in traditional kurtas and turbans at last Friday's dinner party appeared on the Facebook, drawing reaction from the public.
A Chinese reader had emailed the pictures to The Sunday Times and reacted to the distasteful group scene photographs, saying they were offensive because they were "appropriating someone else's ethnicity and treating it like entertainment". Full story
