Singapore court orders Bloomberg to pay ministers $356,000 in defamation case

Bloomberg's editor-in-chief, John Micklethwait, stands by reporting, saying ministers who sued imposed an extremely strained meaning on what was a solid story'

Bloomberg News and one of its reporters have been ordered to pay S$460,000 (US$355,734) in damages after an article it published was found to have defamed two Singapore government ministers, the city-state's high court said in a judgment released on Tuesday.

Bloomberg and the reporter, Low De Wei, are liable to jointly pay S$230,000 to each minister, comprising S$170,000 in general damages and S$60,000 in aggravated damages, the judgment said.