A US hi-tech researcher whose family claims he was murdered in Singapore was under treatment for depression and left suicide notes before he was found hanged, a public inquiry was told yesterday...
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- May 25, 2013
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1 May 2013
A Swiss former banker was yesterday found guilty of having sex with an under-age Singaporean prostitute in a case that caused a scandal as it involved several prominent men in the city state. ...
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12 Apr 2013
A heroin smuggler has become the first convicted drug trafficker in Singapore to avoid a death sentence following reforms in the application of capital punishment, officials said yesterday.
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11 Apr 2013
Rights activists reacted with indignation yesterday after Singapore's High Court rejected a petition to repeal an archaic law criminalising sex between men. In a ruling issued on Tuesday, the...
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20 Mar 2013
Juerg Buergin, 41, is contesting charges filed against him and 50 other local and foreign men accused of paying for sex with the 17-year-old call girl in 2010 and 2011, a case involving prominent...
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19 Mar 2013
Singapore said it is disappointed with a plan by two US senators to block funding to an institute until the FBI gets full access in the investigation into American researcher Shane Todd's death....
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Ng Boon Gay, former director of the Central Narcotics Bureau, was accused of giving confidential information to a technology supplier who testified for the prosecution but whose statements were...
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Chen Weicai, head of the Guangzhou Public Security Bureau’s political affairs department, said on Tuesday during an NPC session that “strict punishment” was needed to solve rising crime in the...
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A man who prompted a landmark court ruling fortifying the rights of accused drug dealers has been freed after a jury returned a unanimous verdict to acquit him on a charge of trafficking in heroin...
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The police force will slash about 900 posts in a government plan to save $280 million in the new financial year, it was announced yesterday.
But top-ranking officers warned frontline...
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Court officials have warned of a widening investigation into the country's biggest corruption scandal after its ringleaders failed in their appeal against the death penalty.
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THE Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) is reviewing its asset-management operations in the wake of the Barings collapse, which locked up about $3.4 billion worth of the territory's foreign...
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