A Singaporean activist who for years had been paying small instalments of the S$150,000 (US$112,000) damages awarded to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in a defamation suit said on Friday he had raised the full amount through a crowdfunding campaign. Taiwan-based Roy Ngerng told This Week in Asia he raised S$144,389.14 in nine days. Since the 2015 award against him, he has paid Lee S$6,000. His crowdfunding campaign follows a similar effort by blogger and opposition figure Leong Sze Hian, who in…
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