{"id":13649,"date":"2025-11-22T16:00:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T08:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=13649"},"modified":"2025-11-22T16:00:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T08:00:50","slug":"hong-kong-says-singapore-minister-david-neo-apologised-for-idiots-remark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=13649","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong says Singapore minister David Neo apologised for &#8216;idiots&#8217; remark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Neo later said in a social media post that he should have been more respectful.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I take back what I said. The Hong Kong team were really tough and their fans were fully behind them. That\u2019s something we should respect, and let\u2019s also get behind our Lions,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Law said the incident would not affect the long-standing sports and cultural relationship between Hong Kong and Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>It also reported that following the result, Ashley Westwood\u2019s 15-month stint as Hong Kong head coach is set to come to an end.<\/p>\n<p>Singapore, meanwhile, is on the hunt for a new head coach, as football fans hail interim coach Gavin Lee for leading the Lions to the historic win.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/sport\/david-neo-hong-kong-singapore-apology-5484286\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neo later said in a social media post that he should have been more respectful. &#8220;I take back what I said. The Hong Kong team&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--Epr1ml2Z--\/c_crop,h_630,w_1120,x_0,y_82\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2025\/11\/22\/screenshot-2025-11-22-151652.png?itok=2dZ6_Oik","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10449,1323,3569,10450,5231,1213,8330,10451,22],"class_list":["post-13649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-apologised","tag-david","tag-hong","tag-idiots","tag-kong","tag-minister","tag-neo","tag-remark","tag-singapore","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}