MP receives demand for RM50m in damages over Limkokwing tweet

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Bangi MP Ong Kian Ming has been served a letter of demand from Limkokwing University of Creative Technology (LUCT) senior vice-president Gail Phung over an allegedly defamatory tweet. This includes a demand that he pay RM50 million to Phung in damages. The offending tweet was in regard to a probe by Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) involving a LUCT campus in that country. In a statement today, Ong said the legal threat was a "case of intimidation" by Phung against an MP "who is raising a legitimate public interest issue". He said he was not agreeing or disagreeing with a tweet he had retweeted but was merely referencing it to alert Malaysian authorities so that they can conduct the necessary investigations. "I will not issue any public apologies over my tweets and public statements with regard to LUCT and their senior management as I firmly b…