FEER magazine to appeal Singapore defamation ruling

Reuters, 22 Oct 2008, Koh Gui Qing and Kevin Lim

SINGAPORE, Oct 22 (Reuters) - The Far Eastern Economic Review will appeal against Singapore's High Court ruling that it has defamed two of the country's most powerful leaders, the magazine's publisher said on Wednesday.

Singapore's High Court ruled in September the publisher and editor of the magazine, owned by Dow Jones & Co, are to pay damages to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his father Lee Kuan Yew, also a former prime minister, after defaming them in an article published in 2006.

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