"We must object when you use a false portrayal of Singapore to advance your own agenda," Singapore's Ambassador to the US, Mr Lui Tuck Yew, said in his letter to the NYT editor.
"We must object when you use a false portrayal of Singapore to advance your own agenda," Singapore's Ambassador to the US, Mr Lui Tuck Yew, said in his letter to the NYT editor.
"Mr Li has never been exiled from Singapore, jailed or stripped of his possessions, as might some of the others in your feature. He remains a Singapore citizen and continues to travel freely on a Singapore passport." In the video, Mr Li, a 39-year-old economics professor at Harvard University, accused his uncle of having a"pattern of using police investigations and criminal prosecutions to dispose of or exile his opponents".
In his response to NYT, Mr Lui said Singapore takes the rule of law seriously and that Mr Li was not above the law - having been charged with contempt of court in 2020. He paid the S$15,000 fine imposed by the court and has not been under investigation for anything else since.In response to Mr Li's point that it was better to fight rather than give in, Mr Lui said Mr Li can contest in the next General Election, which must be held before November this year.
The New York Times video juxtaposed this against Donald Trump’s controversial nomination of Pam Bondi as Attorney General. In 2020, Bondi was on Trump's legal team for his first impeachment trial. "The 2023 Corruption Perceptions Index ranked Singapore the 5th least corrupt country in the world – again, well ahead of the US for many years."In another letter to NYT, dated Jan 15 but only made public on Jan 27, Mr Lui referred to a Jan 11 NYT article, titled Why Singapore's First Family is Locked in a Bitter Feud Over a House.
Mr Lui said Singapore does not have a"first family", and that nobody is above the law, least of all the children or grandchildren of Mr Lee Kuan Yew. NHB to study if Oxley Road site is worthy of preservation; all options should be kept open, says Edwin Tong “The Singapore government has never ‘maintained that it can function without any checks on its power’, as you assert,” it said.
The government said the ministerial committee on 38 Oxley Road did not inquire into Mr Lee Kuan Yew’s last will, as his younger son had alleged. “As prime minister, Mr Lee Hsien Loong had recused himself from all discussions on the matter. He continues to do so now as senior minister.
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