Pathetic...

Isn't it bad enough that we only gave US$50k to Haiti? Must we now make a public admission that donations depend on "the nature of our relations with the affected country..." and are "not intended to match the scale of a disaster"??

Sure of course Singapore government can't very well go around donating large sums of money each and every time a natural disaster happens, but a miserable US$50k???!!!

As one reader on Mr Brown's website points out, US$50k is exactly the same amount Cambodia donated! (Coincidentally Cambodia is one of the recipients MFA explicitly mentions having supported last year in their letter of excuses...)

Me thinks it would have been wiser to
a) shut up totally about the donation; and
b) not responded to all the comments / criticism