Singapore Nation News API

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            "title": "Terry Xu ordered to pay over $154k in legal costs",
            "description": "The Online Citizen's Terry Xu must pay over $154,000 in legal costs to ministers Shanmugam and Tan See Leng following a defamation suit. Read more at straitstimes.com.",
            "content": "SINGAPORE - The High Court on May 11 ordered The Online Citizen (TOC) chief editor Terry Xu to pay more than $154,000 in legal costs to Cabinet ministers K. Shanmugam and Tan See Leng over the defamation suit they had brought against him.\nThe sum com... [4678 chars]",
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            "description": "Gao Xiong said the victim's room door \"caused certain behaviours\", prompting Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon to ask if he was saying \"the door made him do it\".",
            "content": "SINGAPORE: A man who attempted to rape his former housemate in 2023 appealed against his sentence on Tuesday (May 12) and suggested that he wanted a re-trial, claiming that he was in a \"state of confusion\" when he pleaded guilty previously.\nGao Xiong... [5855 chars]",
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            "title": "TOC's Terry Xu ordered to pay over S$154,000 in costs, disbursements to ministers for defamation case",
            "description": "This is on top of the S$420,000 that Mr Xu has to pay in total to ministers K Shanmugam and Tan See Leng for defaming them.",
            "content": "SINGAPORE: The High Court on Monday (May 11) ordered The Online Citizen's (TOC's) editor, Mr Terry Xu, to pay over S$154,000 (US$121,000) in costs and disbursements to two ministers for a defamation case.\nThis is on top of the S$420,000 Mr Xu has to ... [2363 chars]",
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