Lee Hsien Yang faces damages for defamation against two Singapore ministers over Ridout Road rentals yahoo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yahoo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The judgment was entered without Mr Lee Hsien Yang's response or participation, but the judge found that the defamation claims would have been made out on a reading of his offending Facebook post.
SINGAPORE – Mr Lee Hsien Yang will have to pay damages to ministers K. Shanmugam and Vivian Balakrishnan for defaming them in Facebook comments about their rental of state bungalows in Ridout Road. The High Court has granted default judgment in favour of the two ministers, after Mr Lee failed to respond to their defamation suits against him. The amount.