Lee Hsien Loong sends lawyer's letter to Temsaek Review
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i am waiting for a letter to be
send to jason, our toilet cleaner.
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Originally posted by Summer hill:
i am waiting for a letter to be
send to jason, our toilet cleaner.not to the queen?
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Sgforums not happening now.
People won't want to waste the postage stamp sending letters to sgforums.
The letter could end up in Speakers Corner or Bar and ... nothing else would happen.
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Temasek Review Emeritus publishes apology to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong
22 February 2012 1002 hrs
SINGAPORE: Socio-political website TR Emeritus (TRE) on Wednesday published an apology to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong for an article that made a false allegation about the appointment of Madam Ho Ching as the chief executive officer of Temasek Holdings.
Madam Ho is the wife of PM Lee.
Temasek Holdings is a Singapore investment company.
The letter of apology published on TRE on Wednesday was written by its editor, Mr Richard Wan.
It comes three days after Mr Lee's lawyers served a letter asking TRE to apologise and remove the post.
Mr Wan said that the website published the article on or about 16 February.
He admitted and acknowledged that the allegation is false and "completely without foundation".
He also unreservedly apologised to Mr Lee for the "distress and embarrassment" caused to him by this allegation.
Mr Wan said TRE has removed the article and the comments in response to the article.
He said it'll not make any further allegation to the same or similar effect.
In an editorial accompanying the letter of apology, TRE also explained the circumstances leading to the apology.
TRE said that on 19 February, its Singapore-based editor, Mr Wan, was served with a Letter of Demand from law firm Drew & Napier, acting for Prime Minister Lee.
The Letter of Demand pointed out that an article, "PAP-government is full of ironies", as well as a number of comments linked to it, contained words that were defamatory.
It also said the allegations in the opinion piece from a contributor were false and baseless and stressed that Madam Ho was appointed on merit and through proper process.
TRE said Drew & Napier was "kind enough" to provide TRE with information pertaining to the appointment of Madam Ho and showing that Prime Minister Lee was not involved in the decision-making process.
TRE said as a matter of fact, Mr Lee was against the idea from the onset.
The website said in light of the information made available, it would like to offer its sincere apology to Prime Minister Lee.
The press secretary to Mr Lee said on Wednesday that the Prime Minister has noted that the article has been removed and that TRE has apologised.
Mr Lee's lawyers are awaiting a reply in writing from TRE.http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1184426/1/.html
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Originally posted by Medicated Oil:
She is selected based on merit and proper process.
Goodyear did not have enough merit.
Can you get it inside your head ?
She is selected based on the same proper process for selecting Tin Tin.
anyway who is worse off? reputation of ho ching or who?
clearly she hasnt the knowledge, experience and skills to manage Temasek funds. you can say she has all the experts in Temasek advising her, but clearly these so called experts are no experts. in the field, advising her to buy a stake at citigroup and UBS in Dec 2007, a good 9 months before Lehman Brother imploded in Sep 2008.
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Whatever happened to the promise of light touch in regulating the internet?
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Letter of Apology to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong
On 19th Feb 2012, TR Emeritus (TRE) through our Singapore-based editor, was served with a Letter of Demand from law firm Drew & Napier, acting for Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.The letter said that on or about 16th Feb 2012, TRE published or caused to be published on TR Emeritus website, an opinion piece entitled “PAP-government is full of ironies” by a contributor. The article, as well as a number of associated comments, contained words that are defamatory:
“… you always publicise yourself as a clean government with no visible cronyism. There are 10,001 examples that this is absolute crap, but let me just bring up the most obvious one. ts there no person better than Ho Ching in Singapore? Has she brought in extraordinary level of profits every year for Temasek Holdings? Who else in the world has a woman as a chief of sovereign fund or head of investment company? I am not sexist. When HP appointed Carly Fiorina as HP’s CEO, I was cheering for her! Though she did not manage to turn the company around, but I think she made a lot of women proud. My question is, how come someone like Mr Koh Boon Hwee has not been given this position? You mean to tell me Ho Ching is better than Mr Koh? I know of only ONE thing that she does better than Mr Koh.”
It also said that the allegations (above) in the opinion piece by the contributor are false and baseless, ”Mdm Ho Ching was appointed on merit and through proper process.”
Additionally, Messer Drew & Napier was kind enough to provide TRE with information pertaining to the appointment of Mdm Ho Ching, which showed that Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong was not involved in the decision making process. As a matter of fact, Mr Lee was against the idea from the onset.
In light of the information made available to TRE, we would like to offer our sincere apology to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
APOLOGY
1. On or about 16 February 2012, we published on this website, TR Emeritus, an article entitled “PAP-government is full of ironies“ (the “Article”). The Article, and the comments in response to the Article, was available at http://www.tremeritus.com/2012/02/16/pap-government-is-full-of-ironies/.
2. We recognise that the Article meant or was understood to mean that Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong had secured, or was instrumental in securing, the appointment of his wife, Mdm Ho Ching, as the Chief Executive Officer of Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited for nepotistic motives.
3. We admit and acknowledge that this allegation is false and completely without foundation. We unreservedly apologise to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong for the distress and embarrassment caused to him by this allegation.
4. We have removed the Article and the comments in response to the Article and undertake not to make any further allegation to the same or similar effect.
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Richard Wan
for TR Emeritus
http://www.tremeritus.com/2012/02/22/letter-of-apology-to-pm-lee-hsien-loong/
Richard Wan, Editor TR Emeritus
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TRE not very happening these days.
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That joker publish the offender's letter and got into trouble, but did not publish D&N information pertaining to the appointment of Mdm Ho Ching.
TRE is a crap box.
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Lawyer M Ravi no longer acting for TR Emeritus
SINGAPORE: In the latest turn of events, human rights lawyer M Ravi said he is no longer acting for socio-political website, TR Emeritus, in the matter involving an allegedly defamatory comment posted by one of its readers about Mr Lee Hsien Yang, the Chairman of Fraser and Neave.
Mr Ravi confirmed this with Channel NewsAsia Thursday evening.
Earlier, TR Emeritus had said in a posting that Mr Lee Hsien Yang is making more demands than the normal demand of simply removing the offending comment.
TRE editors felt that acceding to all his demands will seriously make running the TRE site difficult in future.
Mr Ravi said he does not know who is acting for TRE now and what course of action they plan to take.
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"Editor’s note: This TRE is not the former TR although some on the present team are from there."
The previous TR and the current TR E not same same. They should say from the start.
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TRE restricted to 5,000 users?
Just like the Newsweek and other foreign magazines.
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Latest: Lee Hsien Yang also sue TRE.
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All of them got a lot of free time sue here sue there.
Poor people like us have to worry everyday abut our next plate of cai png.
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Some one asked who is Sue, she seemed quite popular.
Here is some respite, have a glass of Milo and enjoy.
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one word - Petty old man
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Originally posted by 4sg:
Latest: Lee Hsien Yang also sue TRE.
close case liao. LHY say never mind and dun do it again.
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Originally posted by charlize:
All of them got a lot of free time sue here sue there.
Poor people like us have to worry everyday abut our next plate of cai png.
Consider it an honor to be sued by such people over what you said. It means they heard what you said. if you say what they don't want to hear, they feel hurt! so if you say the wrong thing to hurt them, they sue you; so the moral of the story is, say the right thing, if that hurts, well and good.
So many people scold them, ridicule them, blah blah blah...never get sued, it doesn't matter, it doesn't hurt.
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Originally posted by sgdiehard:
Consider it an honor to be sued by such people over what you said. It means they heard what you said. if you say what they don't want to hear, they feel hurt! so if you say the wrong thing to hurt them, they sue you; so the moral of the story is, say the right thing, if that hurts, well and good.
So many people scold them, ridicule them, blah blah blah...never get sued, it doesn't matter, it doesn't hurt.
U refering to deaf frogs?
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Originally posted by sgdiehard:
Consider it an honor to be sued by such people over what you said. It means they heard what you said. if you say what they don't want to hear, they feel hurt! so if you say the wrong thing to hurt them, they sue you; so the moral of the story is, say the right thing, if that hurts, well and good.
So many people scold them, ridicule them, blah blah blah...never get sued, it doesn't matter, it doesn't hurt.
U refering to deaf frogs?
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Originally posted by 4sg:
The previous TR and the current TR E not same same. They should say from the start.
They should change the eye sore name.
I suggest Singapore Review, Singapore Reporter, Singapore Today, SingaporeKini, DailySingapore, The Singaporean etc.
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Originally posted by charlize:
U refering to deaf frogs?
honours come before cai png
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I like someone from another forum who said:-
So again, the rich and the powerful win.
Does truth matter at all in our society?
Those who sue do so because they have the money and the power to bully, to scare, to make life a living hell.You commit suicide because you cannot pay your debts and they wonder why?
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Lee Kuan Yew started the trend, Lee Hsien Loong and Lee Hsien Yang are both following the poor example of their father.
Lee Kuan Yew is an anglophile peranakan, trained by the british but he never used british liberal methods in politics.
He is a shit actually. Neither east or west, nether here nor there. Just shit.
Maybe because he is nothing, neither here nor there, that is why he wants to sell and create a Singapore as some sort of bastard "east/west" state.
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Actually what was the thing all about?
What was so offending that they wanted to sue?
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