Utusan Melayu ordered to pay RM250,000 to Kit Siang


KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court here has ordered Utusan Melayu (M) Berhad to pay DAP adviser Lim Kit Siang RM250,000 in damages for libel over the party’s central executive committee (CEC) election.

High Court judge Justice Yeoh Wee Siam, in handing down the judgment yesterday, also ordered the publisher to pay costs of RM25,000.

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