PM testifies in libel case


NOT suing his siblings over statements they made regarding their 38 Oxley Road family home did not mean “carte blanche” (complete freedom to act as one wishes) for anyone else to use what they had said to defame him, said Singapore prime minister Lee Hsien Loong.

He was speaking from the witness stand in court yesterday on the first day of a week-long hearing for his defamation suit against Terry Xu, editor of The Online Citizen (TOC) website.

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