Subject to Lynas Corporation
Ltd & Anor v Mtoday News Sdn Bhd Kuala Lumpur High Court Civil Suit No 23
NCVC-52-04-2012, We refer to the articles previously published by us which
claim that the Lynas plant may be unsafe.
We apologise for these
publications as such claims do not have a scientific basis. The regulatory review
of the Lynas plant has been thorough and diligent.
Meanwhile, The High Court
postponed to July 19 the inter-partes injunction hearing by Lynas Corporation
Ltd and Lynas Malaysia Sdn Bhd to restrain “Save Malaysia, Stop Lynas” (SMSL),
an anti-Lynas group and its two directors from further publishing defamatory
article on Lynas.
SMSL’s counsel Bastian Pius
Vendargon told reporters that Lynas had served its affidavit pertaining to the
injunction hearing to the defendants yesterday.
He said the defendants
needed time to file its affidavit-in-reply and the court fixed July 19 to hear
the inter-partes injuction.
He also said that both
parties had submitted written submissions on the injunction to the court.
On April 19, Lynas Corporation
of Sydney, Australia, and Lynas Malaysia filed the suit against SMSL Sdn Bhd
and its two directors, Tan Bun Teet and Lim Sow Teow, over a defamatory article
published on its blogsite, on March 22.
In the suit Lynas also
sought for the defendants to remove the article from its blogsite until the
disposal of the suit. (FMT)
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