Singapore PM wins more defamation suits against online writers
Singapore's high court ordered two bloggers to pay Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong a combined S$210,000 (US$155,994) in damages on Wednesday, over an article about the home of his late father and the city-state's modern-day founder, Lee Kuan Yew.
The premier sued writer Rubaashini Shunmuganathan and editor Xu Yuan Chen, also known as Terry Xu, over an August 2019 article on The Online Citizen (TOC) that included references to a Lee family disagreement about what to do with...
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