Berita Harian censors Lee Kuan Yew’s remarks on Singapore being “largely Chinese and Indians”
It has been four days since Lee Kuan Yew’s remarks on Singapore being “largely Chinese and Indians” was published in the mainstream media, but it has not been reported in Malay Daily Berita Harian yet.
October 2nd, 2010 | 
Author: According to our Malay readers, Berita Harian only carried a short article on Lee’s comments made at the Russia-Singapore Business Forum held on 28 September 2010, but omitted the controversial remark.
When asked about Russia’s growth over the next decade, Lee said Russia’s challenge waas to develop its pool of entrepreneurs, just like Singapore.
“We’re trying to do that. But we are hampered by culture. We’re largely Chinese and Indians. And both Chinese and Indians, the best go into government, (they) don’t go into enterprise,” he added.
[Source: Channel News Asia]
Lee’s remarks caused some disquiet among Singaporeans who wonder if it is a mere oversight or an ominous warning of what to come in the next few years as a result of his “social engineering” tendencies.
According to latest figures released from the Department of Statistics, Malays now form 13 percent of Singapore’s population, down from 15 percent ten years ago though its birth rate is higher than the Chinese and Indians while the percentage of Indians increase from 7 to 9 percent.
Due to the PAP’s pro-foreigner and ultra-liberal immigration policies in particular to immigrants from China and India, foreigners now make up nearly 40 percent of Singapore’s population, up from 14 percent in 1990. Of the remaining 60 percent who are citizens, an increasing number are born overseas.
Indians from the subcontinent now form almost half the number of PRs in 2009.
In an interview with National Geographic magazine earlier this year, Lee said it is a “good thing” that Singapore is accepting so many Chinese immigrants (from mainland China) as they are more “hard-driving” and “hard-striving” than locals.
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