“I am appalled by her horrendous statements. She certainly does not speak for Singaporeans. We treasure our ties with family and friends in Malaysia, and are sorry for the offence and hurt caused to all Malaysians,” he wrote
SINGAPORE: After Singapore-born comedian Jocelyn Chia drew the ire of Malaysians for a series of jokes she made in a show in the United States, Foreign Affairs Minister Vivian Balakrishnan apologised in a tweet, writing that the comic “certainly does not speak for Singaporeans.”
“When my prime minister went on TV to announce that you guys had dumped us, he cried because he thought we were not gonna survive without you. However, the clip in Ms Kudsia’s tweet does not contain what perhaps is the most controversial portion of Chia’s set, which was a reference to the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.
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