Singapore ministers each awarded US$177,860 in damages in Bloomberg defamation suit

The High Court in Singapore awarded two cabinet ministers S$230,000 (US$177,860) each in damages following a defamation trial involving Bloomberg and one of its reporters over the officials’ property transactions. K. Shanmugam and Tan See Leng filed separate suits against Bloomberg and reporter Low De Wei over a story titled “Singapore mansion deals are increasingly shrouded...