GEORGE TOWN: The now-defunct online news publisher FZ Sdn Bhd and its managing editor Terence Fernandez have been ordered by a High Court here to pay RM150,000 and RM100,000 in general damages to Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng and businessman Tan Sri Tan Kok Ping respectively over a defamatory article on Jan 3, 2014.
FZ and the writer of the article, Fernandez, were also ordered to pay an additional RM35,000 in legal costs to Lim and Tan.
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