Singapore"s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong speaks during Standard Chartered"s 150th anniversary cooking in Singapore Feb 19, 2009.
Credit: Reuters/Vivek Prakash
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The New York Times Co apologized to Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and former budding apportion Lee Kuan Yew on Wednesday and paid S$160,000 ($114,000) in indemnification for an essay about Asian domestic dynasties.
An reparation in the perspective territory of the New York Times" website pronounced that any deduction that Lee Hsien Loong "did not grasp his on all sides by merit," was unintended.
The article, entitled "All in the Family," was published on Feb fifteen in the International Herald Tribune (IHT), the tellurian book of The New York Times.
Lee Hsien Loong is the son of eccentric Singapore"s initial leader, Lee Kuan Yew. The New York Times additionally apologized to Goh Chok Tong, who succeeded the comparison Lee as budding minister.
Davinder Singh, the counsel behaving for the leaders, told Reuters that the IHT"s publisher, editor of tellurian editions, and the article"s author, Philip Bowring, additionally concluded to compensate indemnification of S$60,000 to Lee Hsien Loong, and S$50,000 each to Goh Chok Tong and Lee Kuan Yew, as well as compensate their authorised costs.
Singh pronounced the essay was "libellous" and the Singapore leaders had demanded an apology, indemnification and costs.
He pronounced it was in crack of an endeavour done by both the publishing house of the IHT and Bowring in 1994 that they would not have serve identical insulting allegations to those done in an essay by Bowring in the IHT in that year called "The Claims about Asian Values Don"t Usually Bear Scrutiny," for that the IHT and Bowring additionally paid indemnification and costs to the 3 leaders.
A orator for The New York Times Co declined to criticism over the apology, whilst Bowring did not reply to a Reuters question for comment.
Singapore"s leaders have in the past sued and won damages, or out-of-court settlements, from antithesis politicians and unfamiliar media together with the International Herald Tribune, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and The Economist.
Singapore, deliberate to have the lowest domestic risk between Asian nations by most risk consultancies, is a heart for manufacturers, banks and expatriates, who worth the stability. The statute People"s Action Party (PAP) has governed for 50 years.
Singapore was ranked 133rd between 175 countries in the World Press Freedom Index 2009 by Reporters Without Borders.
(Reporting by Neil Chatterjee in Singapore and Tiffany Wu in New York; Editing by Nick Macfie and Raju Gopalakrishnan)
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