MFA Press Release: Singapore’s Ambassador to the United States Mr Ashok Kumar Mirpuri's response to the New York Times article “Dispute Over Singapore Founder’s House Becomes a National Crisis” (4 July 2017)

Singapore’s Ambassador to the United States Mr Ashok Kumar Mirpuri wrote to the New York Times in response to the article “Dispute Over Singapore Founder’s House Becomes a National Crisis” published on 4 July 2017. The full text of the reply is below.  

(The New York Times omitted the following sentence from the first paragraph - “I am surprised that NYT did not seek any comments from Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong or the Singapore government before writing the piece.”)