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The 71-year-old man has blood cancer, but the judge said it was clear neither age nor condition had stopped his ‘appalling’ crimes.
The ex-wife claims that after she retired in 1992, she supported the household and gave her husband half of her monthly pension.
The prosecution said the theft at the home, where a woman held high-stakes poker games, was one of the highest-value robberies in Singapore.
The court found the act of sending of fake images and videos of the man and his sister engaging in sexual acts amounted to family violence.
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Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam had denounced the remarks as ‘shameful and totally unacceptable’.
Home Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam says the evidence on whether such measures are effective in reducing crime rates is so far ‘inconclusive’.
Minister K Shanmugam has asked police to look at an ‘online mob’ after various comments, including missing Singaporeans being ‘not our own’.
A total of 25 properties, including a 4-bedroom penthouse, are expected to fetch millions in the auction.
Serasiya Milan Ramnikbhai and his accomplice were caught at the airport following the Chinatown robbery.
If a social media platform does not want to introduce stronger safeguards, Singapore may require it to raise the minimum age of access to 18.
‘Nothing prepared me for hearing he had died. It was absolutely devastating,’ said Linda Kitchen, who broke her back during the 2024 incident.
Island-wide raids in August 2023 uncovered millions of dollars earned from an illicit gambling ring run by Chinese suspects.
This brings the online commentator’s total number of charges to seven – including three for dodging national service.
Mohammad Sharulnaim Miswan also targeted another couple having sex in a car and took a photo of them before confronting the pair.
Total physical crime fell in the first half, but a 25 per cent spike in home thefts pushed key offences higher.
The man abused the boy for about 18 hours – hitting him with a hanger at least 620 times and stomping on him at least 45 times.
The man stole over US$78,000 in jewellery from a Capella hotel suite, Sentosa and Serangoon properties a day after arriving on holiday.
A judge rejected the pair’s claims that their drinks had been spiked with Ecstasy pills.
Havelock Palace pledged stricter sourcing after a video of the incident also triggered a barrage of one-star Google reviews.
The British chef’s proposal strikes a chord with Singaporeans, who recall the benefits of their own gum ban in keeping the city state clean.
The man, 38, was sentenced to 21 years’ jail and 16 strokes of the cane after pleading guilty to charges including rape and sexual assault.
A court earlier this month ruled that a December 2024 Bloomberg article on Good Class Bungalow transactions had defamed the ministers.
Viral videos show the British band holding a Palestinian flag on stage while the crowd cheers during their concert in Singapore.
Partial payment information may also have been affected, but full credit card details were not exposed, the company says.
The vendor has to replace all 500 straws after the 19-year-old takes one from a machine, licks it, then places it back into the dispenser.
The eldest son of the late opposition icon JB Jeyaretnam, Kenneth Jeyaretnam took over the leadership of his father’s party in 2009.
The woman’s body was discovered by her brother, who visited her dwelling unit after being unable to contact the victim.
The High Court awarded US$178,000 each to the ministers after finding that Bloomberg and its reporter had defamed them in a 2024 article.
‘If you want to eat durians, better eat them now already,’ a seller says as supplies become less abundant.
The case stems from a false anecdote that former WP MP Raeesah Khan told in parliament in August 2021.
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