Singapore official sacked for racist rant
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October 9, 2012, Tuesday
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SINGAPORE'S state-linked labor movement yesterday sacked a senior executive after she posted expletive-laden and racially charged comments on Facebook that caused outrage.
Amy Cheong, an assistant director of membership at the National Trades Union Congress, was fired one day after posting remarks on the social networking site about the country's Malay minority.
NTUC Secretary-General Lim Swee Say, who holds the rank of minister in the office of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, announced the sacking on the organization's Facebook page, which was bombarded with complaints about Cheong.
Cheong's Facebook page could not be accessed yesterday after her remarks caused a furore in Singapore's Internet community, but an apology she wrote on microblogging site Twitter was still visible after she was fired.
"I am truly sorry for making that stupid comment. I really didn't mean it that way. I am truly sorry," she said.
In her Facebook rant, Cheong, an ethnic Chinese, commented on the length of Malay wedding celebrations and derided the community's divorce rates.
Singapore's population is 74 percent ethnic Chinese, 13 percent Muslim Malay and nine per cent Indian, with the rest made up of other immigrant groups.
Amy Cheong, an assistant director of membership at the National Trades Union Congress, was fired one day after posting remarks on the social networking site about the country's Malay minority.
NTUC Secretary-General Lim Swee Say, who holds the rank of minister in the office of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, announced the sacking on the organization's Facebook page, which was bombarded with complaints about Cheong.
Cheong's Facebook page could not be accessed yesterday after her remarks caused a furore in Singapore's Internet community, but an apology she wrote on microblogging site Twitter was still visible after she was fired.
"I am truly sorry for making that stupid comment. I really didn't mean it that way. I am truly sorry," she said.
In her Facebook rant, Cheong, an ethnic Chinese, commented on the length of Malay wedding celebrations and derided the community's divorce rates.
Singapore's population is 74 percent ethnic Chinese, 13 percent Muslim Malay and nine per cent Indian, with the rest made up of other immigrant groups.
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