Lianhe Zaobao's readers voted the word 色 as the word of the year to describe Singapore in 2012. For the non-Chinese readers, this word meant colour but it could also mean lust.
It won the popular vote as a result of the multiple sex scandals that happened in 2012 including
1. Cecilia Sue and Ng Boon Gay (Former CNB director)
2. Former SCDF commissioner Peter Lim
3. Speaker of Parliament: Michael Palmer
4. NUS law professor Tey in the sex-for-grades scandal
5. Fifty over men involved in underage paid sex with a 17-year-old prostitute.
This tongue-in-cheek reference used a Deputy Commissioner, but it must be stressed the Singapore Police Force was not involved in any sex scandal in 2012 per se although a police Sergeant is now currently under investigation for a violent double murder (in 2013).
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