High Court awards Singapore PM S$370,000 in damages in defamation suits against TOC editor Terry Xu and article author

Justice Lim ordered Terry Xu to pay S$210,000, comprising $160,000 as general damages and $50,000 in aggravated damages. - ST FILE

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): The High Court has awarded Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong a total of S$370,000 in damages for two defamation suits he filed over an article published on The Online Citizen (TOC) website.

He had separately sued TOC chief editor Terry Xu and Ms Rubaashini Shunmuganathan, the Malaysian author of the article that was published on Aug 15, 2019.