WP's Low: PM should sue siblings for alleged libel

Singapore

OPPOSITION MPs on Monday said the courts, and not Parliament, was the platform to settle what is essentially a private family matter. They also questioned the manner in which the government appointed senior officials.

Workers' Party chief Low Thia Khiang said that the spat between Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his younger siblings over the fate of their late father Lee Kuan Yew's house at 38 Oxley Road was a case for the libel courts.

"Individuals who make less serious allegations that undermine the reputation and authority of the PM and Cabinet ministers have been brought to task for libel," he told Parliament.

"There's no reason why this time it should be different because it comes fro…