Edwin Tong is a member of the People's Action Party (PAP) and a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Marine Parade GRC.
Online harassment of LGBT teens[edit | edit source]
In then Senior Minister of State Edwin Tong's speech (on behalf of the Minister of Law) during the second reading of the Protection from Harassment (Amendment) Bill, on 7 May 2019, he addressed he need to tackle online harassment and pointed out that:
"Recent surveys show: ... LGBT teens are 5 times more at risk of being abused on Facebook than non-LGBT teens. This online harassment translates into real world violence."[1]
Embracing friend of different sexuality[edit | edit source]
Tong was a panellist during a virtual ministerial engagement session entitled "'Conversations on Singapore Spirit" organised on Saturday, 3 July 2021 by the National Youth Council (NYC) in line with Youth Month which fell in July that year. A fellow panellist, actress and singer Annette Lee suggested embracing diversity in a tangible way and encouraging people to be "a little bit less insular". Tong expanded on the suggestion by saying: "Take, for example, if we had a friend who was from a different race, different gender, different age profile or different sexuality... If we each had a personal friend like that, and we understood and knew that person better, I think we will find ourselves a lot more tolerant, a lot more accepting, and eventually a lot more embracing of these differences."
See also[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- https://www.mlaw.gov.sg/news/parliamentary-speeches/second-reading-speech-sms-edwin-tong-poha-amendments
- https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/community/a-caring-spore-will-be-new-glue-that-binds-society-edwin-tong
Acknowledgements[edit | edit source]
This article was written by Roy Tan.