Singapore woman caught on video allegedly making racist remarks on MRT train offered S$5k bail


Tan Beow Hiong made the headlines earlier this year after she was recorded grilling passengers about their race on an MRT train. - SCREENGRAB FROM RYAN KALMANI/TWITTER

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): A woman who had been caught on video making purportedly racist remarks has been offered bail of S$5, 000 after she was remanded at the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) for psychiatric observation.

Former property agent Tan Beow Hiong, 57, is now represented by lawyer Sng Kheng Huat who appeared in a district court on Friday (July 2).

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