New York Times Pays Damages, Apologizes to Singapore Pols for Article

The New York Times printed an apology and paid $114,000 in damages to Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his father, former PM Lee Kuan Yew, for an article their lawyer called “libelous,” Reuters reports.

The offending article, “All in the Family,” a look at Asian family politics, appeared in the International Herald Tribune, the Times‘ global paper.

The Singapore politicians’ lawyer, Davinder Singh, said to Reuters that the Times paid damages and lawyer fees to the pair.


Says Reuters:

He said it was in breach of an undertaking made by both the publisher of the IHT and Bowring in 1994 that they would not make further similar defamatory allegations to those made in an article by Bowring in the IHT in that year called “The Claims about Asian Values Don’t Usually Bear Scrutiny,” for which the IHT and Bowring also paid damages and costs to the three leaders.

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