Ho Ching explains politically incorrect monkey photo, social media malfunction

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s wife, Ho Ching, on Monday took to her Facebook page to clarify a certain social media malfunction that took place on Sunday, explaining her woes with Twitter experimentation:

Peace, folks, and embarrassed apologies from this Twitter newbie.Had been playing around with Twitter y’day, trying…

Posted by HO Ching on Sunday, 10 April 2016

 

The malfunction we refer to is an image she supposedly retweeted from the “People’s Daily,China” Twitter account that inexplicably ended up on her Facebook page as an un-captioned post:

 

As per the time stamp, the Facebook post was online for several hours before being taken down.

Ho Ching had become an active Facebook user some time in 2015 and her posts do give glimpses into the private lives of PM Lee and her such as this:

Nothing to see here, just Ho Ching taking photos with her bae

Ho Ching’s Korea holiday Facebook posts are veritable poetry

 

Top image from Ho Ching’s Facebook

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- Belmont Lay