CNA Explains: When do negative comments or reviews cross the defamation line?

Teona Gherasim

Is it still defamation if a post is private? What if it’s just an opinion that the products or services are bad? SINGAPORE: In a judgment made available on Tuesday (Sep 9), a housewife was ordered to pay S$25,000 (US$19,500) in damages for defaming a company because she made disparaging comments about the produce it sold. D'Season, a company that specialises in the import, distribution, sale and wholesale of goods and produce from Taiwan, successfully sued Ms Sophia Wu Chao Wen over a post she