Asia Times Online Clipped by Libel Charge
Asia Times Online, the region’s biggest all-Internet news source, has been hit by a HK$1.3 million libel judgment on behalf of a Dubai-based gold trader and financier, Abdul Razzak Yaqoob and his company, ARY Traders, for a 2006 article alleging the company was involved in money laundering, terrorist financing and drug trafficking.
The article, written b…
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