Defamation trial by Shanmugam, Tan See Leng against Bloomberg begins in High Court

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The ministers have sued the news organisation and its reporter for defaming them in an article about Good Class Bungalow purchases. SINGAPORE: The defamation trial against Bloomberg and one of its reporters, brought by Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam and Manpower Minister Tan See Leng, opened in the High Court on Tuesday (Apr 7) morning. After a brief opening by both sides, the defence counsel for Bloomberg and its reporter, Senior Counsel Sreenivasan Narayanan, launched into an intense cross-