RACIAL DISCRIMINATION STILL A PROBLEM IN EAST AND SOUTH-EAST ASIA WORKPLACES

IN east Asia’s complex ethnic mix of peoples, the need to avoid racial discrimination which may undermine social stability is understood clearly by governments and businesses. And while experts agree that progress is being made is tackling this potentially corrosive personnel problem, more certainly could be done. Even in Singapore, where the promotion of harmony between the country’s Chinese, Malay and Indian communities has been a core goal of government policy since independence in 1965, the problem persists. The number of complaints for workplace ...


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