Action in the High Court of the Republic of Singapore ("Singapore High Court")
Lee Kuan Yew v Review Publishing Company Limited and Hugo Restall
(Case No. S540/2006/Q)
This is hilarious, and quite Kafka-esque: "We sue you for defamation for alleging that we sue people for defamation unnecessarily"
Page 9 of the Writ of Summons for a libel suit against FEER reads:
"16. In addition, the phrase "How many libel suits have Singapore's great and good wrongly won, covering up real misdeeds?" was repeated and given special prominence in a box in the Article."
They even helpfully include in Appendix A an extensive list of defamation suits won by the plaintiff.
Irony, thou art dead.
Why My Vote Matters-A Dialogue With Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew
MM Lee: You mean to tell me you have, you're one of the 40% who voted against the PAP and something happens to you?
Ken Kwek, 26 - Journalist; Never voted: I mean, I've never voted for that matter, but I mean - we talk to hundreds of voters in the course of our work, and it's either "no comment" or "if I vote against the PAP..."
MM Lee: Let's get down. What are the hundreds of voters? You name the hundreds of voters, a few of them. Tell me.
Ken Kwek: Well, I mean I can't name them-
MM Lee: No no.
Ken Kwek: By name.
MM Lee: No, you tell me who you've spoken to and they say "we're afraid to vote..."