SINGAPORE: Singapore’s High Commissioner to Malaysia Vanu Gopala Menon on Thursday (Jun 8) said he was appalled by 'gratuitously offensive comments' made by comedian Jocelyn Chia during a stand-up performance in New York. In a video clip of Chia performing at the Comedy Cellar club, s
SINGAPORE: Singapore’s High Commissioner to Malaysia Vanu Gopala Menon on Thursday said he was appalled by"gratuitously offensive comments" made by comedian Jocelyn Chia during a stand-up performance in New York.
She commented on Singapore's separation from Malaysia in 1965, saying that Singapore has gone on to become a first-world country and that Malaysia was"still a developing" one.
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