The Sydney Morning Herald
January 7, 2008
The Lees have a long history of libel stoushes with foreign media, battles they have never lost when heard in Singapore's own courts, which grants them damages payouts that set world records. The (pre-Murdoch) Asian Wall Street Journal, Time, The International Herald Tribune, Businessweek, Bloomberg and the Financial Times are among other international names respected for their accuracy and authority that have been hit with the Lees' libel broadsides. And lost.
The Lees have used similar tactics in seeking to silence political opponents.
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