 She was appointed as the head of the Government Information Office (GIO) in May 2008 and left at the end of the year for Singapore.In October 2011, Shih angered Singapore's founding father Lee Kwan Yew and other high-ranking officials in the Singaporean government after she sang the ROC national anthem and hung the ROC flag in public, attended by international guests during the 100th anniversary of the National Day of the Republic of China at Shangri-La Hotel Singapore.She also attempted to contact members of the Workers' Party of Singapore, the opposition party of Singapore.