OCT 18 — Given the string of incidents over the years where hurtful comments have been made about various races and religious communities here, should Singapore change the way it practises multi-racialism from an approach of seeing it as “a problem that needs to be managed”, to one that celebrates the different races and cultures?
The question was posed yesterday at a National University of Singapore forum on the government’s engagement of the public after last year’s general election.
The forum featured People’s Action Party MPs Edwin Tong and Indranee Rajah, and four opposition politicians — Workers’ Party (WP) Non-Constituency MP Yee Jenn Jong, Singapore Democratic Party member James Gomez, National Solidarity Party secretary-general Hazel Poa and Reform Party secretary-general Kenneth Jeyaretnam. Full story
