新加坡國旗印上短褲惹爭議

According to the Reuters on November 25, the skimpy trunks sported by Singapore’s men’s water polo team at the Asian Games are causing denounce back home, with many embarrassed by their design。

The trunks display the Singaporean flag's white crescent moon and several stars on the front of the red briefs in what has been described as an inappropriate fashion。

The design -- lambasted by readers of Singapore's Straits Times newspaper as "disgusting", "nauseating" and "disgraceful" among other terms -- had not been approved by the country's Ministry of Information, Communication and the Arts (Mica)， which governs the use of the flag。

"There are a thousand ways to show patriotism, but regrettably, the chap who designed these trunks chose to do it in this disgusting and disrespecting way," one post read on the Straits Times website。

Jose Raymond, the Singapore delegation's head of public relations, said the team were "apologetic if they've offended anyone in any way... they meant the flag no disrespect."新加坡“國旗短褲”惹爭議

據路透社25日報道，新加坡水球隊在亞運會上所穿的游泳短褲在新加坡國內激起一片聲討，很多人認爲短褲設計讓他們“顏面盡失”。

短褲以紅色面料爲背景，正面是新加坡國旗上的新月和幾顆星星，人們認爲這個設計“太不恰當了”。

這一設計不僅被《新加坡海峽時報》的讀者斥爲“噁心”、“讓人作嘔”和“丟人”等等，也遭到管理國旗使用的新加坡信息產業部、新聞通訊部以及藝術部的反對。

有網民在《新加坡海峽時報》上發帖稱，“表達愛國的方式有上千種，但非常遺憾的是，設計師卻選擇用這種最噁心、不尊重國旗的方式來表達。”

新加坡代表團負責公關關係的何塞•雷蒙德表示，如果水球隊“因此觸犯了別人，他們感到非常抱歉，…… 他們也不想對國旗不敬。”