{"id":59456,"date":"2026-07-14T09:33:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T09:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=59456"},"modified":"2026-07-14T09:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T09:33:09","slug":"singapore-court-orders-bloomberg-to-pay-356000-to-ministers-in-defamation-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=59456","title":{"rendered":"Singapore court orders Bloomberg to pay $356,000 to ministers in defamation case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Singapore court has ordered Bloomberg and one of its reporters to pay S$460,000 to two ministers who had sued them for defamation over an article referencing their property transactions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last year, the ministers, K Shanmugam and Tan See Leng, sued Bloomberg and reporter Low De Wei for a 2024 article titled &#8220;Singapore Mansion Deals Are Increasingly Shrouded in Secrecy&#8221;, which had mentioned their property deals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bloomberg said it did not imply any wrongdoing and had used them as examples of a broader trend. They have not commented on the verdict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The judge found that when read as a whole, the piece implied wrongdoing by the ministers as it also mentioned secrecy and money laundering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: A Singapore court has ordered Bloomberg and one of its reporters to pay S$460,000 to two ministers who had sued them for defamation over an article referencing their property transactions. Last year, the ministers, K Shanmugam and Tan See Leng, sued Bloomberg and reporter Low De Wei for a 2024 article titled &#8220;Singapore Mansion Deals Are Increasingly Shrouded in Secrecy&#8221;, which had mentioned their property deals. Bloomberg said it did not imply any wrongdoing and had used them as examples of a broader trend. They have not commented on the verdict. The judge found that when read as a&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59458,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59456\/revisions\/59458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}