Race issues

Forum: Singaporeans must rise to the challenge to our racial harmony

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Commentary

Why Singapore has become a target on the Chinese internet

It is an uneasy combination of respect, frustration and disdain that often surfaces whenever Singapore becomes a topic of debate online, says the writer.

Commentary

Vulgar HK school principal, abusive sports coach? Our kids deserve better

A secondary school is seeking to replace its principal who was caught on video crudely swearing at ethnic minority security guards, while another basketball coach was arrested for alleged assault after a video showed him slapping a student repeatedly.

Forum: Be discerning and reject efforts to sow distrust

Forum: Let’s have more people of different races and religions mixing freely

Singapore must act firmly when others seek to divide it: Edwin Tong on blocked online content

Law Minister Edwin Tong called on Singaporeans to be more discerning when viewing online content and to not disseminate it if it is harmful.

Singapore blocks online posts targeting Indian community; content likely from China-based platform

MHA said that the content undermines Singapore’s model of multiculturalism.

US actor Ted Danson apologises for blackface roast of Whoopi Goldberg in 1993

Ted Danson, 78, was involved romantically with Whoopi Goldberg at the time of the celebrity roast held by the New York Friars Club.

British PM calls for calm after protests over handcuffing of dying student

A demonstrator reacting after kicking a police wall on June 2 near Portswood Police Station, following a protest march in Southampton, southern England.

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