{"id":30134,"date":"2021-03-25T09:29:28","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T00:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/25\/singapore-blogger-ordered-to-pay-nearly-us100000-damages-to-pm-for-facebook-post"},"modified":"2021-03-25T10:46:35","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T01:46:35","slug":"singapore-blogger-ordered-to-pay-nearly-us100000-damages-to-pm-for-facebook-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30134","title":{"rendered":"Singapore blogger ordered to pay nearly US$100,000 damages to PM for Facebook post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blogger argued he had \u2018merely shared\u2019 an article without changing content or adding comments<\/p>\n<p>The Singapore high court has ordered a blogger to pay S$133,000 (US$98,825) in damages in a defamation case to the prime minister, Lee Hsien Loong.<\/p>\n<p>Lee sued Leong Sze Hian, a financial adviser, after he shared on Facebook an online news article .<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/25\/singapore-blogger-ordered-to-pay-nearly-us100000-damages-to-pm-for-facebook-post\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blogger argued he had \u2018merely shared\u2019 an article without changing content or adding commentsThe Singapore high court has ordered a blogger to pay S$133,000 (US$98,825) in damages in a defamation case to the prime minister, Lee Hsien Loong.Lee sued Leon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,687,238,783,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-facebook","category-media","category-singapore","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30134"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30157,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30134\/revisions\/30157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}