The Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) is looking into a Facebook post by Mr Li Shengwu, the elder son of Mr Lee Hsien Yang, that criticised the Republic's court system over the weekend. Photo: Facebook/Li Shengwu, TODAY file
SINGAPORE – The Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) is looking into a Facebook post by Mr Li Shengwu, the elder son of Mr Lee Hsien Yang, that criticised the Republic's court system over the weekend.
On Saturday (July 15), Mr Li, a Harvard academic, posted a link to a Wall Street Journal article on the 38 Oxley Road dispute involving his father, his aunt Dr Lee Wei Ling and his uncle Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
He described the article as a “good” summary, and likened the public disagreements over his late grandfather’s house as a "political crisis".
In the same post, which has since been deleted, Mr Li added a second link to a New York Times commentary alleging media censorship in Singapore, published in April 03, 2010 and wrote: “Keep in mind, of course, that the Singapore Government is very litigious and has a pliant court system. This constrains what the international media can usually report.”
In response to media queries, an AGC spokesperson said: “AGC is aware of the post and is looking into the matter.”
This is not the first time that Mr Li has commented on the family dispute over the Oxley Road house.
Last month, he said on Facebook that over the last few years, his immediate family had become increasingly worried about what he alleged as a lack of checks on abuse of power.
In a subsequent post, he said that he did not intend to go into politics, adding: “I believe that it would be bad for Singapore if any third-generation Lee went into politics. The country must be bigger than one family.”
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Well Shengwu already made it clear he won't return to SG and will fight his case via a legal proxy.
Someone at the AGC evidently didn't get the ceasefire memo from Pinky, looks like we might need a popcorn refill for the second half of this year.
Just in: AGC to start proceedings against Li Shengwu for contempt of court over Facebook post
SINGAPORE: The Attorney-General's Chambers (AGC) has filed an application in the High Court on Friday (Aug 4) to begin committal proceedings against Mr Li Shengwu for contempt of court.
This is in connection with a Facebook post he had put up on Jul 15 that criticised the Singapore court system, said the AGC in a statement.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/agc-to-start-proceedings-against-li-shengwu-for-contempt-of-9094174
This chap sure has the iron in him, looks like ah gong's good stuff passed right through Pinky and straight into Hsien Yang's son. Someone give him a bloody Tiger already.
CHEE HONG TAT HAS NO RIGHT TO SCHOOL LI SHENGWU ON LKY'S VALUES
Senior Minister of State for Communications and Information and Health, Chee Hong Tat, has tried to scold Li Shengwu, the grandson of Lee Kuan Yew and the son of Lee Hsien Yang, after the latter made a Facebook post criticizing Singapore's judiciary.
Chee told reporters: "“I am disappointed at the actions made by Sheng Wu. Is this the way to respect Mr Lee Kuan Yew and his values? I also don’t understand why Sheng Wu continues to launch his attacks online despite his father (Lee Hsien Yang) has declared that he would stop doing so.”
However, what many people do not know is Minister Chee has absolutely no right to scold Shengwu for the very fact that he himself did not follow every word of Mr Lee Kuan Yew's wishes.
Not only is Chee an outsider and a non-family member of the Lees, he had also disobeyed a lifelong goal of Mr Lee which was to eradicate the speaking of dialects in Singapore.
In 2009, when he was the principal private secretary to the late Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, he wrote an article to the Straits Times calling advocates of dialect use in Singapore "foolish" (‘Foolish to advocate the learning of dialects‘, 7 Mar 2009).
“Singapore’s experience over 50 years of implementing the bilingual education policy has shown that most people find it extremely difficult to cope with two languages when they are as diverse as English and Mandarin,” he wrote. “This is why we have discouraged the use of dialects. It interferes with the learning of Mandarin and English.”
“We also emphasised the learning of Mandarin, to make it the mother tongue for all Chinese Singaporeans, regardless of their dialect groups,” he added. “It would be stupid for any Singapore agency or NTU to advocate the learning of dialects, which must be at the expense of English and Mandarin.”
“That was the reason the Government stopped all dialect programmes on radio and television after 1979. Not to give conflicting signals, then Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew also stopped making speeches in Hokkien.”
Then came the General Election in 2015, where Chee ran for office with the People's Action Party. During the campaign, he created controversy when he introduced himself in Hokkien and singing in Hokkien to serenade voters, especially the elderly.
When probed by reporters about the seemingly contradictions he was exhibiting during the 2015 GE, he “sidesteps the issue, and (declined) to say more on the matter”, reported ST.
LOL who created this video? Super professional haha!!!
Super moving Korean drama-soon to air on Mediacorpse channel U? :P
Auntie Ling Ling comes to nephew's rescue. Lee Wei Ling for first female PM!
If the legal apparatus dare lay a finger on Hsien Yang and Suet Fern's baby, mark my words it will be scorched Earth motherfucker for Pinky and the entire government.
This grandson was personally coached by ah gong himself in long nightly debates, AGC might have just picked a fight with the wrong person. Hope this rewards Pinky Lee with many more stressful, sleepless nights, to the point his cancer relapses and he capitulates in complete shame on every front.
Our supreme clown of a prime minister's political career is now a delicate act subsisting on borrowed time. Game of charades has to end sooner or later.