Singapore PM awarded US$275,000 in defamation suit against news website The Online Citizen

Singapore’s High Court on Wednesday awarded Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong a total of S$370,000 (US$275,000) in damages, after he won two separate defamation lawsuits against the chief editor and a writer from news website The Online Citizen.The lawsuits stemmed from an article published by the site in August 2019 about the home of his late father Lee Kuan Yew at 38 Oxley Road, that included references to a disagreement within the Lee family about what to do with the property.In a 60-page…