Paper Reportedly Pays $214,285 in Libel Suit
Settling its second defamation suit in Singapore this year, the International Herald Tribune newspaper Monday agreed to pay $214,285 to Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew, state-run television reported.
The amount was decided at a High Court hearing Monday, the report said. Lee was Singapore’s prime minister from 1959 to 1990.
The suit arose over an article published in October, 1994, that Lee’s lawyers said alleged he had tried to suppress democratic political activity.
On July 26, a High Court judge ordered the Paris-based Herald Tribune to pay total damages of $678,571 to Lee, his son--Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong--and Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong in another libel suit.
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