Singapore Court Orders Bloomberg to Pay Ministers $356,000 in Defamation Case
A Singapore court has ordered Bloomberg to pay $356,000 to ministers in a defamation case. This ruling concludes a legal dispute regarding published content.
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Singapore court orders Bloomberg to pay ministers $356,000 in defamation case
Bloomberg’s editor-in-chief, John Micklethwait, stands by reporting, saying ministers who sued ‘imposed an extremely strained meaning on what was a solid story’ Bloomberg News and one of its reporters have been ordered to pay S$460,000 (US$355,734) in damages after an article it published was found to have defamed two Singapore government ministers, the city-state’s high court said in a judgment released on Tuesday. Bloomberg and the reporter, Low De Wei, are liable to jointly pay S$230,000 ...
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