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        "msgid": "spores-lee-to-retract-statement-1447893297",
        "date": "1997-03-18 00:00:00",
        "title": "S'pore's Lee to retract statement",
        "author": null,
        "source": "AFP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "S'pore's Lee to retract statement SINGAPORE (AFP): Singaporean Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew yesterday said he was retracting a court document critical of a Malaysian state which triggered a diplomatic row between the two countries. In a signed statement, the former prime minister said he had instructed his lawyer to ask a court to remove \"the offending words\" from an affidavit portraying the southern Malaysian state of Johor near Singapore as crime-ridden.",
        "content": "<p>S'pore's Lee to retract statement<\/p>\n<p>SINGAPORE (AFP): Singaporean Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew<br>\nyesterday said he was retracting a court document critical of a<br>\nMalaysian state which triggered a diplomatic row between the two<br>\ncountries.<\/p>\n<p>In a signed statement, the former prime minister said he had<br>\ninstructed his lawyer to ask a court to remove \"the offending<br>\nwords\" from an affidavit portraying the southern Malaysian state<br>\nof Johor near Singapore as crime-ridden.<\/p>\n<p>\"I have already apologized unreservedly and repeat my<br>\nunreserved apology in this signed statement,\" said the 73-year-<br>\nold Lee.<\/p>\n<p>The affidavit had been filed as part of a defamation suit<br>\nagainst an opposition candidate, Tang Liang Hong, who had fled to<br>\nJohor citing death threats after losing in the January general<br>\nelections here.<\/p>\n<p>Lee's statement caused outrage in Malaysia, whose cabinet is<br>\nset to meet tomorrow and was expected to demand a retraction<br>\nbefore Lee issued his statement Monday. Lee had apologized<br>\npublicly on Thursday but failed to placate Kuala Lumpur.<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/spores-lee-to-retract-statement-1447893297",
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