Senior Minister K Shanmugam said on September 5 that police are investigating racist online comments about the nine Singaporeans missing in the Nepal-Tibet floods, including slurs such as 'Rescue cut' directed at images of the missing and the derogatory term 'ABNN' targeting Indian Singaporeans. Shanmugam, who is also Home Affairs Minister, directed the Ministry of Digital Development and Information to ask social media platforms to remove comments breaching community guidelines, and noted that Channel NewsAsia had disabled comments on several posts due to the severity of the abuse. He also cited more than S$3 million raised by the Singapore Red Cross for Nepal relief as evidence that racist voices represent a minority of Singaporeans.
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