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Student from China gets jail, caning for graffiti offences A student who tried to "create awareness" about the Falungong spiritual group by writing messages about it in public areas was sentenced to two months in jail and six strokes of the cane yesterday. Chinese national Gao Bin, 21, used a...

Convicted drug trafficker Yong Vui Kong loses appeal SINGAPORE -- The punishment of caning is not unconstitutional, the apex court ruled yesterday, throwing out the latest in a string of legal challenges mounted by convicted drug trafficker Yong Vui Kong. After he became the first to escape...

He robs man of $85 after losing $3,000 gambling All it took was an hour for Suresh Kannan to lose his salary of $3,000 at the Marina Bay Sands (MBS) casino. Broke, the 33-year-old decided to tail an Indonesian casino patron all the way from MBS to Sengkang, where he robbed him. Suresh, a...

Molester gets four years' jail and caning A CONSTRUCTION worker who molested two maids after following them into the lift was jailed for four years and ordered to be given nine strokes of the cane yesterday. Bangladeshi national Zakir Hossain Nurul Hoque, 29, restrained his "girlfriends" as...

2½ years' jail and caning for Little India rioter THE first man who pleaded guilty to rioting during last December's unrest in Little India was sentenced to 2½ years' jail and three strokes of the cane yesterday. Ramalingam Sakthivel, an Indian national, was also given a jail term of two...

Murderer escapes death sentence Man jailed for life after discretion allowed in capital punishment cases A 23-YEAR-OLD Malaysian man yesterday became the first convicted murderer in Singapore to be sentenced to life imprisonment instead of a mandatory death penalty. This follows changes made...

'Director' of loan-shark team gets jail, caning LOAN-SHARK runner Se Wei Kuang was jailed yesterday for leading a team that harassed debtors by scrawling graffiti, splashing paint and sealing their main gates with bicycle locks. The Malaysian was sentenced to four years and four months in...

SGX uses technologies from India-based HCL It was earlier reported that SGX has changed its management team overseeing its IT operations and technology developments. Starting this year, SGX IT Operations and Technology units are now placed under the charge of SGX president Muthukrishnan...

‘Gifted’ expatriate fooled Manpower Ministry twice to gain EP An American psychologist who previously lectured in two local polytechnics has been charged with lying about his HIV status twice for a chance to work in Singapore. The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) charged that the American, Mikhy K...

Tour guide jailed for 4 weeks for assaulting taxi driver SINGAPORE - A tour guide who assaulted a taxi driver while drunk was jailed for four weeks on Wednesday (July 13). Han Seok Yeong, 47, a South Korean and a Singapore permanent resident, had admitted using a pouch to hit Mr Lim Boon...

Teller foiled scammer who targeted woman to remit $180,000 The elderly woman looked nervous as she entered the shop at People's Park Complex. Accompanied by a younger woman, she said she needed to remit $180,000 to a beneficiary in China. The younger woman also kept hurrying the staff at...

Judge dismisses worker's injury claims His employer had seen to his medical bill and extra surgery, but he still sued for more A judge has dismissed a case by a construction worker who took his employer to court after he caused himself a minor eye injury at work. In a judgment on Monday...

Singapore police hunt bank 'note' robber AFP/Singapore Singapore police said on Friday they are hunting a man who managed to steal more than $22,000 from a bank using nothing but a piece of paper. The suspect, described as caucasian, strolled into a Standard Chartered branch in an expatriate...

Window$ 10000 anyone? Woman Sues Microsoft Over Unwanted Windows 10 Upgrade, Wins $10,000A few days after Microsoft released Windows 10 to the public last year, Teri Goldstein’s computer started trying to download and install the new operating system. The update, which she says she didn’t...

Is the ISA only useful as a political deterrent for local dissidents or can it double up as an effective immigration "checkup" for foreign anarchists? Investigators told Dhaka's "Daily Star "newspaper that BNP leader Mohammad Quayum - a university professor living in Malaysia - had planned...

Man who raped 12-year-old girl in 2002 sentenced to 16½ years' jail, 18 strokes SINGAPORE - A man who raped a 12-year old schoolgirl in 2002 was caught by chance when he was arrested and investigated for theft in 2014. On Wednesday (June 22), he pleaded guilty to the offence and was sent to...

Sales exec jailed 3 years for using fake $100 notes she printed at home SINGAPORE - Unable to cope with her mounting debts, a sales executive printed counterfeit $100 notes at home and then used them to pay for low value items at several shops so that she could get real change, a court heard...

If I'm not wrong, Fandi has been inducted into Groningen's Hall of Fame. Well done! The Singaporean who set Groningen on firehttp://backpagefootball.com/the-singaporean-who-set-groningen-on-fire/66815/ Here's Fandi's famous goal against the World Cup winners of Inter Milan...

Jailed for molesting girls aged 7 and 14 He was arrested last October for molesting a then-seven-year-old girl at Boon Lay Shopping Centre. But just four months later, while he was out on bail, Malaysian storekeeper Lim Kok Leong, 29, molested a second girl - aged 14. The charge for the second...

In the words of a wise old man, no amount of education can prevent unemployment. Even in booming Singapore, which is importing highly skilled workers to stem a talent shortage, graduate unemployment rose from 3.3% to 3.6% in the first half of 2013, higher than the average unemployment rate in...