S'pore blogger crowdfunds over RM446,000 to pay PM defamation damages

A Singaporean activist said on Friday he had raised S$144,389 (RM446,779) through social media to cover defamation damages he had to pay Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, the second such crowdfunding case involving a blogger this month.

The prime minister sued Roy Ngerng for a blog post in 2014 in which Ngerng allegedly implicated Lee in impropriety in connection with how funds in Singapore’s mandatory retirement savings scheme, the Central Provident Fund(CPF), are managed.

In 2015, the Singapore High Court ordered...