The Straits Times' News In A Minute: Dec 17, 2015

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Today's top news headlines: Roy Ngerng ordered to pay PM Lee $150,000 for defamation, illegal ivory and pangolin scales worth $1.3 million seized, and more students qualify for Secondary 5.

In today's The Straits Times News In A Minute video, we look at:

*The High Court has ordered blogger Roy Ngerng to pay Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong $150,000 for defamation.

*An air shipment of illegal ivory and pangolin scales, worth $1.3 million, was intercepted and seized by authorities last Saturday.

*74.9 per cent of the 11,528 students who took the N-level exams this year qualified to go to Secondary 5.

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