Singapore PM’s brother Lee Hsien Yang says ministers misinterpret his comments


Lee Hsien Yang said his July 23 Facebook post didn’t assert that Law Minister K. Shanmugam and Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan "acted corruptly or for personal gain” as they alleged. - Bloomberg

SINGAPORE (Bloomberg): The estranged brother of Singapore’s premier said the ministers of law and foreign affairs misinterpreted his comments about them, two days after they demanded an apology for allegedly defaming them.

They "are wrong about what I said,” Lee Hsien Yang said in a post on Facebook Saturday.

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