March 19, 08:59 AM 
514 Chai Chee Lane 03-16, Singapore 469029 There were eggs on many international journalists' faces last night. We are talking about you, CNN, China's CCTV, Sina and Phoenix Chinese News.
A hoax website announced the death of former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew last night and international media went to town without checking the url or the official PMO website.
PMO told The Straits Times that it had lodged a police report about the website and added that no new information had been issued about Lee's health since yesterday morning.
Enter Ho Ching, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's wife and daughter-in-law of Lee, to break the Internet with the latest information on her personal Facebook.
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