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TONY TAN ALSO SUING TANG FOR DEFAMING HIM IN REPORT.
25 January 1997
ST
DEPUTY Prime Minister Tony Tan is also suing Mr Tang Liang Hong for defaming him in a police report he made on Jan 1.
This is the seventh defamation suit that has been filed against the defeated Workers' Party candidate by People's Action Party leaders and members.
Dr Tan, who is also Defence Minister, gave notice of his legal action in an advertisement published in The Straits Times yesterday.
Mr Tang, who is in London, has eight days to enter an appearance at the Registry of the High Court if he wants to defend himself.
If he does not, judgment may be made against him, warned Dr Tan's lawyers, Wong Partnership. Dr Tan is claiming damages and costs.
Copies of the Writ have been posted on the Supreme Court notice board and on the front door of Mr Tang's home in Hua Guan Avenue.
On Wednesday, Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Trade and Industry Minister-elect Lee Yock Suan also initiated defamation action against the 61-year-old lawyer over his police report.
The report was against 11 PAP leaders who had alleged that the WP man was an anti-Christian, anti-English-educated Chinese chauvinist, who could cause social and racial disharmony.
In his report, made at Kreta Ayer neighbourhood police post, Mr Tang said that their allegations and statements were groundless and were intended to harm his reputation and to defame him.
He also claimed that their actions and statements were likely to "incite religious extremists to hate me and cause harm to me and members of my family".
The PAP leaders had also challenged and provoked him repeatedly to make public statements which they said might cause social disorder in Singapore, he added.
The suits over Mr Tang's police report are separate from the three defamation actions by PM Goh, SM Lee, and six other PAP members for his comment that they had concocted lies against him.
He is also being sued by SM Lee and DPM Lee for his comments in the Hongkong-based magazine Yazhou Zhoukan about discounts on HPL apartments sold to the Lees last year.
25 January 1997
ST
DEPUTY Prime Minister Tony Tan is also suing Mr Tang Liang Hong for defaming him in a police report he made on Jan 1.
This is the seventh defamation suit that has been filed against the defeated Workers' Party candidate by People's Action Party leaders and members.
Dr Tan, who is also Defence Minister, gave notice of his legal action in an advertisement published in The Straits Times yesterday.
Mr Tang, who is in London, has eight days to enter an appearance at the Registry of the High Court if he wants to defend himself.
If he does not, judgment may be made against him, warned Dr Tan's lawyers, Wong Partnership. Dr Tan is claiming damages and costs.
Copies of the Writ have been posted on the Supreme Court notice board and on the front door of Mr Tang's home in Hua Guan Avenue.
On Wednesday, Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Trade and Industry Minister-elect Lee Yock Suan also initiated defamation action against the 61-year-old lawyer over his police report.
The report was against 11 PAP leaders who had alleged that the WP man was an anti-Christian, anti-English-educated Chinese chauvinist, who could cause social and racial disharmony.
In his report, made at Kreta Ayer neighbourhood police post, Mr Tang said that their allegations and statements were groundless and were intended to harm his reputation and to defame him.
He also claimed that their actions and statements were likely to "incite religious extremists to hate me and cause harm to me and members of my family".
The PAP leaders had also challenged and provoked him repeatedly to make public statements which they said might cause social disorder in Singapore, he added.
The suits over Mr Tang's police report are separate from the three defamation actions by PM Goh, SM Lee, and six other PAP members for his comment that they had concocted lies against him.
He is also being sued by SM Lee and DPM Lee for his comments in the Hongkong-based magazine Yazhou Zhoukan about discounts on HPL apartments sold to the Lees last year.
