Hsien Yang, Wei Ling to stop posting evidence on social media

Singapore

THE two siblings of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong have agreed to accept their elder brother's desire to settle their very public feud in private, and will stop posting further evidence online for now.

In a seven-page joint statement posted on Facebook on Thursday, Lee Wei Ling and Lee Hsien Yang said they will "cease presenting further evidence" on social media, provided that both their wish and their father's are "not attacked or misinterpreted".

The three Lee siblings - the children of Singapore's late founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew - have been embroiled in an ugly dispute since June 14 over the fate of their 38 Oxley Road family home.

The issue escalated to the point that PM Lee had to give a ministerial statement in Parliament earlier this week, with more than 30 members o…