The statement by Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam and Manpower Minister Tan See Leng came after Bloomberg and The New York Times published articles on the High Court's ruling in the defamation case.

The judge found that the December 2024 article about secretive Good Class Bungalow transactions had defamed the ministers.

A Singapore court has ordered Bloomberg and one of its reporters to pay S$230,000 (US$177,874) each to two ministers who had sued them for defamation over an article referencing…