PM Lee hopes to announce decision on tudung (head cover) in August


The change for Muslims nurses to wear the tudung with their uniforms can be done, said Singapore PM Lee. - The Straits Times/ANN

SINGAPORE, April 10 (Bernama): Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is hoping to give further details and to announce the government’s decision on allowing Muslim nurses in the country to wear the tudung (head cover) at the National Day Rally in August.

On his Facebook post, Lee wrote that this morning he discussed the government’s deliberations on allowing its Muslim nurses to wear the tudung, with the country’s Malay/Muslim religious and community leaders in a ‘candid, lively and sincere’ manner.

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