A court-advised mediation today has failed to settle a defamation suit by DAP chairperson Lim Guan Eng and two other party heavyweights against PAS lawmaker Siti Mastura Muhammad.

As a result, the Penang High Court is set to proceed with a full trial in September of the civil actions filed by Guan Eng, DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang and Seputeh MP Teresa Kok, over an allegation that the trio has blood ties with a communist and a former Singapore prime minister...