Lee Hsien Yang & Lee Hsien Loong trading blows over Facebook

They are responding to each other on social media now.

Belmont Lay | June 15, 2017, 09:59 PM

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is officially still on leave and was supposed to be until June 17.

However, allegations made by his two younger siblings have cut his vacation plans short.

On June 15, less than two days after allegations were made against him by Lee Hsien Yang and Lee Wei Ling, PM Lee put up an edited summary of what he told the Ministerial Committee.

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This statement is significant as it is a statutory declaration, which means it is the equivalent of making a statement under oath.

However, barely minutes after the statement was put up by PM Lee, Lee Hsien Yang responded with a Facebook post:

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This is a significant development, as the biggest feud in Singapore ever is being carried out over Facebook, and the siblings are addressing each other on social media when it was previously made known they were not on speaking terms but communicating via their lawyers.

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Lee brothers communicate with each other via their lawyers: Reuters

 

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