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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