The ceremony followed this lead, featuring traditional Chinese drum music and Mickey Mouse dressed in a traditional, red Tang Chinese suit -- a collarless silk jacket with matching trousers, resplendent with gold accents on the embroidered jacket, toggle buttoning and trouser cuffs.

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In September senior minister Lee and his son, Deputy PM Lee Hsien Loong, filed a suit against Tang over a quote he allegedly made in June to a Chinese-language regional newsweekly.

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The quote referred to the Lees buying two condos each for discounts. (They have since donated the discounts to charity, and the government has cleared the Lees of any impropriety.) The father and son filed another suit against Tang this month over similar comments allegedly made during the campaign.

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