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COMMENT | What was untruthful about news reports on HRD Corp?

COMMENT | Never has a single letter of demand caused so much uproar and controversy. This week, inside the august chamber and along its corridors, lawmakers discussed, dissected, and dichotomised it.

Dated July 15, the 11-page letter which has since been reproduced on social media was related to the Human Resource Development Corp (HRD Corp) threatening legal action against The Edge and one of its writers.

This is for alleged defamation over reporting on the findings of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and the auditor-general.

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Sent on its behalf by the law firm Amrit & Company, HRD Corp accused the media company of having “unfairly, deliberately, maliciously, recklessly published and in bad faith (malice) misquoted, sensationalised and misinterpreted the findings made by the National Audit Department” in two of its articles.

HRD Corp claimed the articles were intended to...


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