https://www.scmp.com/rss/323914/feed The latest news, analysis and opinion on Today Online. In-depth analysis, industry insights and expert opinion. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com A Singapore Coroner’s Inquiry into the death of a 72-year-old woman who died a day after taking her first Pfizer Covid-19 vaccination shot has concluded that her death was the result of coronary heart failure and not the vaccine. The findings into Chan Yoke Chew’s death were presented by Coroner Christopher Goh on July 25. Chan’s family were understandably concerned that the administration of the vaccine somehow caused her death, but the medical reports indicated this was not the case, he... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3272465/singapore-woman-who-died-day-after-covid-jab-had-heart-failure-no-vaccine-link-coroner?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3272465/singapore-woman-who-died-day-after-covid-jab-had-heart-failure-no-vaccine-link-coroner?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 30 Jul 2024 08:10:45 +0000 After losing her job as a preschool teacher in November last year, Morena Hui Yan-Yan, 27, went on a spending spree using credit cards she stole from friends and strangers. The Canadian-born Hong Kong citizen is also on the run from the authorities in Toronto, where she has been wanted for alleged fraud and other property offences since 2019. Hui’s Singapore crimes included using the stolen bank cards to pay for hotel stays, music festivals, air tickets, restaurant meals, and to book gym, spa,... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3271734/singapore-jails-canadian-born-hong-kong-woman-credit-card-theft-trying-flee-country?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3271734/singapore-jails-canadian-born-hong-kong-woman-credit-card-theft-trying-flee-country?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 24 Jul 2024 10:30:47 +0000 A TikTok video of a woman warning others about an offer she received to take part in a sexually suggestive photo shoot involving 50 men has gone viral, with several users saying they’d received a similar proposition. Junior designer Lai Yi Jing, 21, posted a video on the platform last week saying that she had received an email from a man named “Gavin Choo”, who identified himself as a Singapore-based freelance photographer. The man said he was scouting for models for a paid project, described as... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3269559/singapore-tiktokker-exposes-sexual-photo-shoot-recruitment-scheme?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3269559/singapore-tiktokker-exposes-sexual-photo-shoot-recruitment-scheme?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 08 Jul 2024 05:41:04 +0000 The last of 10 people involved in Singapore’s S$3 billion (US$2.2 billion) money laundering investigation was on Monday handed a 17-month jail term – the harshest sentence meted out for the case. Su Jianfeng, 36, was convicted on Thursday last week after he pleaded guilty to one charge each of possessing almost S$551,000 in criminal proceeds from running an illegal remote gambling service and fraudulently using a forged property sale contract to explain the source of deposits into his bank... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3266028/singapore-hands-final-offender-money-laundering-scandal-longest-jail-sentence?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3266028/singapore-hands-final-offender-money-laundering-scandal-longest-jail-sentence?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 10 Jun 2024 07:45:08 +0000 Instead of stopping after hitting a pedestrian in Singapore, Safuan Tehda, 35, continued driving towards Tuas Checkpoint and crossed the border. The pedestrian later died in hospital. The law only caught up with Safuan more than six months later after he was arrested by Malaysian police and extradited to Singapore. Appearing in the State Courts via video link on Wednesday, Safuan was sentenced to 23 months’ jail and was disqualified from holding or obtaining all classes of driving licences for... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3265612/singapore-jails-truck-driver-who-left-malaysia-after-fatal-hit-and-run-accident?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3265612/singapore-jails-truck-driver-who-left-malaysia-after-fatal-hit-and-run-accident?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 06 Jun 2024 08:18:21 +0000 The badminton coach of a secondary school team sent several female students sexual messages and later engaged in sexual acts with one of them when she was 15 years old. The married man, now aged 33, was sentenced to three years’ jail on Thursday after he pleaded guilty to two charges of engaging in sexual acts with a person under 16 years of age. Both the man and the teenager cannot be named under a court gag order to protect the victim’s identity. The court heard that the man had been hired by... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3263796/singapore-badminton-coach-who-sexually-groomed-15-year-old-girl-jailed-3-years?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3263796/singapore-badminton-coach-who-sexually-groomed-15-year-old-girl-jailed-3-years?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 23 May 2024 10:00:20 +0000 During an intimate video call with his wife, a man in Singapore took a topless screenshot of her without asking for her consent, then sent the image to the wife’s older brother, calling her “a prostitute”, among other insults. The 46-year-old Singaporean, who cannot be named to protect the identity of the victim, had previously physically abused his wife, a court heard. The court heard that the husband had gone drinking with his friends on the evening of June 1 last year. Soon after reaching... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3261542/singapore-jails-man-sending-topless-photos-wife-her-brother?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3261542/singapore-jails-man-sending-topless-photos-wife-her-brother?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 06 May 2024 05:03:54 +0000 At just five years old, Abyan Imtiaz Irkiz has become the youngest Singaporean to reach Mount Everest base camp. Abyan achieved the feat with his father, Zikri Ali, 41, on Monday – two days earlier than they had planned. It took the pair eight days to reach the base camp, which sits at an altitude of 5.36km above sea level. It serves as a home base for mountaineers attempting to climb Mount Everest in Nepal. The father and son duo, who have been documenting their journey on an Instagram account... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3261331/5-year-old-becomes-youngest-singaporean-conquer-everest-base-camp-through-hard-work-and-faith?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3261331/5-year-old-becomes-youngest-singaporean-conquer-everest-base-camp-through-hard-work-and-faith?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 03 May 2024 08:21:11 +0000 A 45-year-old man linked to Singapore’s largest money laundering case was sentenced to 15 months’ jail on Tuesday. He is the fifth of 10 accused persons to be dealt with in relation to the case. Zhang Ruijin pleaded guilty on Tuesday to two counts of forgery-related offences and one of failing to satisfactorily account for property reasonably suspected to be benefits from criminal conduct. Another five similar charges were taken into consideration for his sentencing. Zhang, a Chinese national,... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3260919/singapore-jails-chinese-national-15-months-role-us22-billion-money-laundering-case?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3260919/singapore-jails-chinese-national-15-months-role-us22-billion-money-laundering-case?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 30 Apr 2024 08:33:52 +0000 A married man, whose girlfriend died shortly after being assaulted by him, has been sentenced to 20 years’ jail in Singapore for culpable homicide not amounting to murder. M Krishnan was upset about his girlfriend’s relationships with other men when he punched and kicked her, the court heard. Mallika Begum Rahamansa Abdul Rahman was aged 40 when she died on January 17, 2019, the day Krishnan was arrested. Krishnan, 40, pleaded guilty in the High Court last week. His sentence was backdated to the... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3260023/singapore-jails-married-man-who-beat-mistress-death-fit-jealousy?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3260023/singapore-jails-married-man-who-beat-mistress-death-fit-jealousy?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 23 Apr 2024 07:22:04 +0000 Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam on Friday criticised a commentary by British publication The Economist, which he said could not “resist sneering” at Singapore’s political leadership handover. The weekly newspaper’s commentary, published on Thursday, noted that Singapore has had “only” three leaders in its 59 years, and that the next prime minister Lawrence Wong “remains relatively unknown among Singaporeans”. “He was not the 4G’s [fourth generation leaders’] first choice,” said the... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3259700/singapores-minister-k-shanmugam-rebuts-sneering-article-uks-economist-countrys-political-succession?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3259700/singapores-minister-k-shanmugam-rebuts-sneering-article-uks-economist-countrys-political-succession?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 19 Apr 2024 13:18:21 +0000 Countries that host international events and conferences are not, “as a rule”, expected to provide secured means of communication as foreign guests typically arrange their own means of transmitting sensitive information, Singapore’s Senior Minister of State for Defence Heng Chee How said on Tuesday. These protocols can include the use of encryption hardware or software, commercial secured lines or those provided by the embassy. He said the Ministry of Defence and Singapore Armed Forces officials... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3257548/singapore-minister-responds-german-military-call-leak-says-secure-lines-not-expected-rule?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3257548/singapore-minister-responds-german-military-call-leak-says-secure-lines-not-expected-rule?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 02 Apr 2024 07:00:21 +0000 A man who cheated three people by selling them fake Taylor Swift concert tickets and later helped them gatecrash the concert was sentenced to three months’ jail. Yang Chenguang, a 29-year-old Chinese national, pleaded guilty on Thursday to one charge of cheating and one charge of criminal trespass. He entered Singapore on March 1 on a social visit pass and did not bring luggage, wearing the same set of clothing throughout his time here. Yang took part in a scheme to help three people tailgate a... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3257142/singapore-jails-chinese-national-3-months-selling-fake-taylor-swift-tickets-helping-trio-gatecrash?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3257142/singapore-jails-chinese-national-3-months-selling-fake-taylor-swift-tickets-helping-trio-gatecrash?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 28 Mar 2024 23:00:14 +0000 A domestic helper who punched, slapped and bit her 101-year-old bedridden charge, then taped the woman’s mouth to suppress her screams of pain, has been sentenced in Singapore to 20 weeks’ jail. Aye Aye Aung, a 32-year-old Myanmar national, had been caring for the victim, who is on a feeding tube, for about three years. She pleaded guilty on Thursday to two charges of voluntarily causing hurt. On February 27, the 43-year-old granddaughter of the victim received a WhatsApp message from her aunt,... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3257120/singapore-jails-myanmar-helper-who-punched-bit-101-year-old-woman-no-reason-and-taped-her-mouth-stop?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3257120/singapore-jails-myanmar-helper-who-punched-bit-101-year-old-woman-no-reason-and-taped-her-mouth-stop?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 28 Mar 2024 11:10:42 +0000 A 53-year-old man has been remanded at Singapore’s Institute of Mental Health after being charged with making false bomb threats against two politicians, including Taiwan’s legislative speaker. Loo Peng Seng, a Singaporean, was handed four charges of communicating false, harmful information on Tuesday. It came after the police said in a statement on Monday evening that they were alerted on March 4 to a case of an alleged bomb threat. “A member of the public reported that she came across a post... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3256890/singapore-man-accused-bomb-threats-against-taiwanese-legislative-speaker-1-other-politician?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3256890/singapore-man-accused-bomb-threats-against-taiwanese-legislative-speaker-1-other-politician?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 27 Mar 2024 06:02:11 +0000 Angry that his wife had told him to keep quiet after he spoke loudly on the phone as their baby slept, a man in Singapore held a kitchen knife to her throat and threatened to kill the child if she left home. The 24-year-old man was sentenced to three months’ jail after pleading guilty to criminal intimidation and voluntarily causing hurt. The name of the man and his wife cannot be published to protect the identity of the couple’s children. On May 14 last year, just over two months after the... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3256556/singapore-man-threatens-slit-wifes-throat-kill-their-baby-gets-3-months-jail?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3256556/singapore-man-threatens-slit-wifes-throat-kill-their-baby-gets-3-months-jail?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 25 Mar 2024 01:25:09 +0000 A woman who cheated her boss at a real estate firm into giving her S$3.7 million (US$2.78 million) over almost a decade, including his life savings, was sentenced to 12 years’ jail on Wednesday. Lynne Charlotte James persistently lied to the victim that she had become bankrupt and posed as government officials in emails to back up her lies. After the 69-year-old man depleted his savings, he and his wife sold two of their condominium units as well as their personal possessions to raise funds for... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3255262/singapore-sentences-woman-12-years-jail-cheating-boss-giving-her-us278-million?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3255262/singapore-sentences-woman-12-years-jail-cheating-boss-giving-her-us278-million?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 13 Mar 2024 12:20:49 +0000 Wanting some rest after a long day, a 24-year-old sales assistant in Singapore headed home – only to be disturbed by the sound of a “live game” on his roommate’s mobile phone. His solution? Stabbing the man with a kitchen knife. Wang Ye, who is from China, was sentenced to 12 months’ jail on Wednesday last week, after pleading guilty to voluntarily causing hurt using a weapon. Two similar charges were taken into consideration. Deputy Public Prosecutor Janessa Phua told the court that Wang and... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3254028/singapore-jails-chinese-man-who-stabbed-roommate-over-noisy-mobile-game?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3254028/singapore-jails-chinese-man-who-stabbed-roommate-over-noisy-mobile-game?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 04 Mar 2024 02:03:19 +0000 A Singaporean businessman who “has shown susceptibility to be influenced by foreign actors and willingness to advance their interests” has been served a notice under the Foreign Interference Countermeasures Act (Fica). In a press statement on Friday, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said on that account, it has served a notice on Friday to Philip Chan Man Ping, a 59-year-old naturalised Singapore citizen, to designate him as a politically significant person. “The registrar has assessed that... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3250786/singaporean-businessman-who-showed-susceptibility-foreign-influence-served-notice-under-anti-foreign?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3250786/singaporean-businessman-who-showed-susceptibility-foreign-influence-served-notice-under-anti-foreign?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 02 Feb 2024 12:58:56 +0000 A woman who flipped a pot of boiling hot soup onto a man, causing him to suffer burns to nearly a third of his body, was sentenced to four years’ jail on Thursday. Lim Si Hui, 33, pleaded guilty earlier on January 2 to voluntarily causing grievous hurt by means of a heated substance. Another charge for voluntarily causing hurt to the same victim by slapping him three times was taken into consideration during sentencing. Lim and the victim Martin Boey started arguing just before 11pm on April 19... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3249748/singapore-jails-woman-who-burned-man-boiling-hotpot-liquid-causing-injuries-almost-third-his-body?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3249748/singapore-jails-woman-who-burned-man-boiling-hotpot-liquid-causing-injuries-almost-third-his-body?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 25 Jan 2024 09:18:44 +0000 Singapore’s planned full adoption of SimplyGo for adult public transport fares will be postponed from the original June 1 date as the authorities try to iron out concerns raised by commuters, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) said on Monday. Separately, Transport Minister Chee Hong Tat said the government will spend S$40 million (US$29.8 million) to extend the use of Ez-link cards and Nets FlashPay cards for adult commuters, and not to “sunset” the system in 2024 as originally planned. The... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3249343/singapore-u-turns-allow-ez-link-card-public-transport-payments-beyond-june-1?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3249343/singapore-u-turns-allow-ez-link-card-public-transport-payments-beyond-june-1?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 22 Jan 2024 08:38:11 +0000 After claiming that a man had damaged her mobile phone, Lim Si Hui walked into a hotpot restaurant in Singapore and flipped a pot of boiling soup onto him, causing burns to nearly one-third of his body that required several skin grafts. The 33-year-old Singaporean pleaded guilty on Tuesday to voluntarily causing grievous hurt by means of a heated substance. Another charge for voluntarily causing hurt to the same victim by slapping him three times on the face will be taken into account when Lim... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3247092/singapore-woman-admits-vicious-hotpot-attack-permanently-scarred-man?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3247092/singapore-woman-admits-vicious-hotpot-attack-permanently-scarred-man?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 03 Jan 2024 03:31:27 +0000 A former member of Singapore’s Reform Party has apologised to Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam, admitting he published false statements about the latter’s alleged “extramarital affair”. In an apology note entitled “Apology and Undertaking”, Thaddeus Thomas said: “I admit that I intended to put up these falsehoods and acknowledge that those statements are false and completely without foundation.” The apology was first posted on TikTok on December 21, 2023, under the user... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3247057/singapores-shanmugam-receives-apology-ex-reform-party-member-who-spread-tiktok-rumours-about?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3247057/singapores-shanmugam-receives-apology-ex-reform-party-member-who-spread-tiktok-rumours-about?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 03 Jan 2024 01:09:04 +0000 Singapore’s National Environment Agency (NEA) and two of its officers have been charged under the Workplace Safety and Health Act (WSHA) in connection with the localised explosion that occurred at the Tuas Incineration Plant two years ago. The incident on September 23, 2021 left two NEA officers dead and another worker with serious injuries. The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) and the Attorney-General’s Chamber (AGC) said on Tuesday that NEA is alleged to have failed to take several measures to... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3246287/singapore-government-agency-charged-2021-fatal-plant-blast-killed-2-officers?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3246287/singapore-government-agency-charged-2021-fatal-plant-blast-killed-2-officers?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 26 Dec 2023 09:35:08 +0000 Affected by alcohol and angry he could not find out which room his partner had moved to after an argument, a tourist assaulted a security officer by pushing him to the ground, then punching and kneeing him in the face. Craig Clive Hilton, 40, was sentenced to six weeks’ jail on Wednesday after he pleaded guilty to voluntarily causing hurt to a security officer under the Private Security Industry Act. A Singapore court heard that at the time of the offence, the Australian was on holiday with his... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3245794/singapore-jails-drunk-australian-tourist-who-assaulted-security-officer-after-argument-his-partner?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3245794/singapore-jails-drunk-australian-tourist-who-assaulted-security-officer-after-argument-his-partner?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 20 Dec 2023 23:00:24 +0000 A man in Singapore who flipped over a couple’s mobility scooter after driving his own into it at speed while drunk, fracturing one of their ankles, has been jailed. Hui Sai Mun, 57, pleaded guilty to causing hurt by a rash act that endangered the personal safety of New Ah Chew, 51, and his wife Wei Xiaohui, 42. The crash occurred on the evening of May 27 last year, when New and his wife were travelling on a mobility scooter along a pavement near Block 165 Yishun Ring Road. The couple had... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3245406/singaporean-jailed-drunk-mobility-scooter-crash-high-speed?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3245406/singaporean-jailed-drunk-mobility-scooter-crash-high-speed?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 18 Dec 2023 01:43:28 +0000 Unable to control his temper after being called fat and a transgender person, Sim Lek Yam struck his colleague twice with a garden hoe, resulting in a 10cm-long cut over the back of the victim’s head and a 5cm-long cut over his upper back. The 71-year-old condominium gardener was sentenced to 10 weeks’ jail in Singapore on Monday after he pleaded guilty to a single charge of voluntarily causing hurt using a weapon of offence. Sim was also required to pay a compensation of S$128 (US$96) to the... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3243791/singapore-jails-gardener-who-hit-colleague-hoe-over-fat-transgender-remarks?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3243791/singapore-jails-gardener-who-hit-colleague-hoe-over-fat-transgender-remarks?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 04 Dec 2023 11:00:30 +0000 A one-off property tax rebate for owner-occupied homes, ranging from 100 per cent for the smallest public flats to 15 per cent for private properties, will be given next year to offset the expected rise in property taxes. The rebate comes amid cost-of-living concerns and would cushion the property tax rises, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) and Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (Iras) said on Thursday in announcing the move. They said the higher property taxes to be incurred from January 1,... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3243376/singapore-offers-one-time-rebate-100-homeowners-cushion-impact-higher-property-taxes?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3243376/singapore-offers-one-time-rebate-100-homeowners-cushion-impact-higher-property-taxes?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 30 Nov 2023 09:30:11 +0000 A Chinese woman tried to bribe officials at Singapore’s Changi Airport with around US$50 each to let her onto a flight to Amsterdam without a valid visa, a court heard. Zeng Xiuying, 52, and her companion Wu Zhangwang had arrived in Singapore on a flight from Koh Samui, Thailand, on the afternoon of October 16. The pair of Chinese nationals were in transit, with plane tickets for a KLM Royal Dutch Airlines flight that was headed to the Netherlands at 12.40am on October 17. But they were denied... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3240453/singapore-jails-chinese-traveller-who-tried-bribe-her-way-flight-amsterdam?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3240453/singapore-jails-chinese-traveller-who-tried-bribe-her-way-flight-amsterdam?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 06 Nov 2023 04:33:16 +0000 A former administrative assistant in Singapore who felt unappreciated by her boss decided to use his credit card details to go on an online shopping spree, buying goods amounting to more than S$36,000 (US$26,300), a court heard. Jocelyn Lee Sock Hui, 28, was sentenced to 15 months’ jail on Tuesday after she pleaded guilty to one count of cheating and one count of committing criminal breach of trust. Two other similar cheating charges and one charge of forgery were also taken into consideration... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3239096/singapore-jails-woman-who-used-bosss-credit-card-go-us26000-shopping-spree?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3239096/singapore-jails-woman-who-used-bosss-credit-card-go-us26000-shopping-spree?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 25 Oct 2023 05:01:43 +0000 Using the pretext of keeping tabs on his teenage son, a man in Singapore sought out the contact of his son’s male best friend, who was 13, so that he could check on his child’s progress at school. But as time passed, the messages to his son’s schoolmate became more lewd and inappropriate as he began to ask for sex as well as nude photographs, even though the victim persistently refused to accede to his various requests. On Monday, the man, who is now 58, was sentenced to 10 months’ jail after... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3236514/singapore-jails-man-who-repeatedly-asked-teen-sons-best-friend-sex-nude-photos?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3236514/singapore-jails-man-who-repeatedly-asked-teen-sons-best-friend-sex-nude-photos?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 02 Oct 2023 10:00:21 +0000 A beautician in Malaysia who allegedly performed a breast enhancement procedure on a 29-year-old housewife that led to her eventual death is still missing. After the death of Tan Wei Shan last month, Ling Tian Soon, chairman of the Johor health and unity committee, said the state health department’s private medical practice control section had launched an investigation into the matter and searched for the beautician. “They also staked out the location – a double-storey house in Taman Mutiara... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3235880/unlicensed-malaysian-beautician-large-after-botched-breast-enhancement-surgery-led-womans-death?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3235880/unlicensed-malaysian-beautician-large-after-botched-breast-enhancement-surgery-led-womans-death?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 26 Sep 2023 23:30:21 +0000 Claiming that he was unable to control his “urges”, a man in Singapore used his exposed genitals to inappropriately touch the elbow of a frightened 11-year-old girl who was sharing the same housing block lift with him. Khoo Wei Yang, 24, a permanent resident of Singapore originally from Malaysia, was sentenced to five months’ jail after pleading guilty to using criminal force to outrage the modesty of the victim. A similar charge was taken into consideration during sentencing. The girl’s name... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3235709/singapore-jails-malaysian-man-who-wiped-his-genitals-girl-11-lift?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3235709/singapore-jails-malaysian-man-who-wiped-his-genitals-girl-11-lift?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 25 Sep 2023 07:14:58 +0000 A bystander who tried to separate two men fighting after a drinking session in Singapore had part of his finger bitten off by one of the brawling pair. Indian national Thangarasu Rengasamy, 40, was sentenced to 10 months’ jail on Friday after pleading guilty to voluntarily causing grievous hurt by biting the victim’s left index finger. At the time of the incident, Thangarasu was an excavator operator living at a migrant worker dormitory in Kaki Bukit. On April 22, he had been drinking alcohol... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3234884/singapore-jails-migrant-worker-who-bit-end-bystanders-finger-drunken-brawl?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3234884/singapore-jails-migrant-worker-who-bit-end-bystanders-finger-drunken-brawl?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 18 Sep 2023 02:06:10 +0000 After finding bruises on her elderly mother, a woman in Singapore checked closed-circuit television footage only to find that her domestic helper had been assaulting the 85-year-old by shaking her roughly and hitting her multiple times. Indonesian national Indah Nur Wahyuni, 35, was sentenced to 12 weeks’ jail on Tuesday after pleading guilty to voluntarily causing hurt to a vulnerable person by hitting her hand and back. A similar charge was taken into consideration during sentencing. The court... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3234341/singapore-jails-indonesian-helper-who-repeatedly-hit-helpless-85-year-old-dementia-patient?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3234341/singapore-jails-indonesian-helper-who-repeatedly-hit-helpless-85-year-old-dementia-patient?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 13 Sep 2023 04:02:08 +0000 While looking after her 69-year-old employer who has dementia, a domestic helper in Singapore suddenly felt weak and helpless when he muttered the word “sleep”. Singaporean man Tan Jeck Tuang then proceeded to outrage the woman’s modesty while she was conscious but unable to open her eyes or express resistance. He would do so again several months later, sexually assaulting her after giving her the command to sleep, which put her into a state of helplessness that the prosecution called “a... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3233562/singapore-jails-elderly-man-who-put-indonesian-maid-trance-rape-molest-her?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3233562/singapore-jails-elderly-man-who-put-indonesian-maid-trance-rape-molest-her?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 06 Sep 2023 04:32:16 +0000 In exchange for sex and money, an immigration officer in Singapore helped a Chinese national to get arrested, thereby giving her access to special passes to extend her stay in the city state. Teo Hwee Peng, 49, was sentenced on Monday to a total of 33 months in jail and a fine of S$2,634 (US$1,944). He was convicted of eight corruption charges in May. Special passes, which are issued by immigration authorities or the Ministry of Manpower, allow foreigners to stay in Singapore for specific... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3231981/singapore-jails-immigration-officer-who-helped-chinese-prostitute-overstay-visa-return-sex-cash?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3231981/singapore-jails-immigration-officer-who-helped-chinese-prostitute-overstay-visa-return-sex-cash?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 23 Aug 2023 03:32:07 +0000 A photograph posted online of a set of toilets designated as “gender neutral” at a convention centre in Singapore has provoked some hostile reactions, including comments that the city state was becoming “woke”. “Woke” is a term that started off as a positive description for evolving social attitudes and practices, but is now generally used in the negative by opponents of change. Online debate about the toilets at the Suntec Singapore Convention and Exhibition Centre was triggered by the posting... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3231758/singapore-debates-gender-neutral-toilets-amid-backlash-against-woke-washrooms-suntec?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3231758/singapore-debates-gender-neutral-toilets-amid-backlash-against-woke-washrooms-suntec?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 21 Aug 2023 05:03:07 +0000 A domestic worker in Singapore who stabbed her employer’s 70-year-old mother-in-law to death was sentenced to life imprisonment by the High Court on Tuesday. Zin Mar Nwe, who was 17 at the time of the incident, stabbed the elderly woman 26 times after she threatened to send Zin back to her employment agent. The Myanmar national had previously disputed the single charge of murder laid against her in November 2021. However, she was convicted in May after High Court Judge Andre Maniam rejected the... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3226498/singapore-jails-myanmar-maid-life-over-murder-employers-70-year-old-mother-law-she-stabbed-26-times?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3226498/singapore-jails-myanmar-maid-life-over-murder-employers-70-year-old-mother-law-she-stabbed-26-times?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 04 Jul 2023 08:00:14 +0000 After meeting various women in Singapore using dating applications, Johan Wijaya filmed them having sex with him without their consent or knowledge. During investigations, police found recordings of 76 women victims who had been filmed over a five-year period on Johan’s devices. Not all resulted in charges against the Indonesian. On Tuesday, Johan, 32, a permanent resident of the city state, was sentenced to eight months’ jail after pleading guilty to five counts of voyeurism. Eleven other... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3225647/singapore-jails-indonesian-who-filmed-himself-having-sex-76-women-without-their-consent?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3225647/singapore-jails-indonesian-who-filmed-himself-having-sex-76-women-without-their-consent?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 28 Jun 2023 01:38:12 +0000 A 22-year-old Singapore man has been sentenced to 15 months and four weeks’ jail for sending images of his genitals to girls who were between 11 and 15 years old that he contacted through WhatsApp and Instagram. Teo Jun How also exposed himself to one of them and was found to have been in possession of more than 354 files of pornographic child abuse material, the court heard on Tuesday. He pleaded guilty in January this year to nine sexual offences related to minors. Thirteen other similar... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3224839/singapore-jails-man-sending-teen-girls-pictures-his-genitals-grooming-victims-social-media?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3224839/singapore-jails-man-sending-teen-girls-pictures-his-genitals-grooming-victims-social-media?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 21 Jun 2023 06:02:14 +0000 Infatuated with a prison officer whom he met while incarcerated, Jee Chai Chai resorted to stalking her by creating Facebook accounts to send her direct messages and calling the Singapore Prison Service hotline to get her number, among other methods. The 28-year-old Singaporean pleaded guilty on Thursday to one charge under the Protection from Harassment Act and another charge of committing an obscene act in a public place after he stood naked in front of a woman to pleasure himself. Three other... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3224559/singapore-ex-convict-admits-stalking-prison-officer-he-met-jail-pleasuring-himself-public?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3224559/singapore-ex-convict-admits-stalking-prison-officer-he-met-jail-pleasuring-himself-public?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 19 Jun 2023 06:02:17 +0000 Soon after her husband said that he may want to divorce her, a woman travelled to Singapore and scalded him with hot water and left him with skin loss over his upper back. The 28-year-old woman, Rahimah Nisva, was sentenced to eight months’ jail after she pleaded guilty on Tuesday to causing hurt by means of a heated substance to her husband Muhammad Rahimi Shamir Ahmad Safuan. Rahimah is an Indonesian who left her home in Batam, Indonesia, to visit Singapore under the guise of a leisure trip... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3222340/singapore-jails-indonesian-woman-scalding-malaysian-husband-hot-water-wanting-divorce?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3222340/singapore-jails-indonesian-woman-scalding-malaysian-husband-hot-water-wanting-divorce?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 30 May 2023 23:00:22 +0000 An 86-year-old Singaporean man who hacked his long-time romantic partner to death with a chopper has been sentenced to 15 years’ jail by a judge who called the killing “vicious” and “brutal”. “It was a senseless attack on a defenceless victim and the attack was relentless and intense as can be seen on the horrifying number of injuries he inflicted on the victim,” Justice See Kee Oon said as he delivered the sentence. Pak Kian Huat, also known as Pek Kiah Huat, pleaded guilty to culpable homicide... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3221413/singapore-sentences-86-year-old-man-15-years-jail-hacking-partner-death-chopper?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3221413/singapore-sentences-86-year-old-man-15-years-jail-hacking-partner-death-chopper?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 22 May 2023 09:53:51 +0000 To blackmail his ex-girlfriend into having sex with him again, Nicholas Koh Wei Xuan sent her a 40-second video that he took without her consent of the two of them engaging in sexual acts. His phone was seized after his arrest where another sex video of a 17-year-old victim who was filmed without her knowledge was also found, alongside 69 obscene films. On Wednesday, the 25-year-old Singaporean was sentenced to two months and three weeks’ jail in the State Courts, after he pleaded guilty to one... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3220921/singapore-jails-man-blackmailing-ex-girlfriend-sex-video-taken-without-consent?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3220921/singapore-jails-man-blackmailing-ex-girlfriend-sex-video-taken-without-consent?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 17 May 2023 23:00:19 +0000 Stressed out that he did not have a girlfriend, Cavell Chua Ke Qin took to masturbating in public once or twice a week while watching young girls practise ballet at a studio near central Singapore. He did this for nearly a year before he was caught. The 27-year-old pleaded guilty on Thursday last week to a charge of committing an obscene act in a public place and was sentenced to three weeks’ jail. Two other similar charges were taken into consideration for the Singaporean’s sentencing. Deputy... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3219872/singapore-jails-unknown-chinese-male-masturbating-outside-ballet-studio-while-young-girls-danced?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3219872/singapore-jails-unknown-chinese-male-masturbating-outside-ballet-studio-while-young-girls-danced?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 09 May 2023 03:32:08 +0000 After drinking copiously, a man wandered out to burn four Singapore flags and a string of National Day decorations. He even threw his own shorts into the fire and ended up walking home naked. Chen Yongsheng, 40, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to one charge of committing mischief by destroying property knowing that it could cause wrongful loss or damage, with one charge of appearing nude in public taken into consideration. He is set to be sentenced on May 19. Last year on August 9, Singapore’s... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3217519/drunk-man-burned-4-singapore-flags-and-own-shorts-then-walked-home-naked-court-hears?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3217519/drunk-man-burned-4-singapore-flags-and-own-shorts-then-walked-home-naked-court-hears?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 19 Apr 2023 02:01:42 +0000 A teenager who was caught on camera humping a cat along the corridor of a public housing block in Singapore was arrested on Tuesday. In response to queries, police said that they received a report of an alleged case of an obscene act on Senja Road in Bukit Panjang at 12.10am on April 11 and a male teenager was arrested in relation to the case. The cat’s owner, Ismul Azim, who had earlier posted the video on his Instagram account, said that the incident happened on April 8 at around 1.50am. In... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3216732/singapore-teen-arrested-after-being-caught-humping-cat?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3216732/singapore-teen-arrested-after-being-caught-humping-cat?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 11 Apr 2023 20:18:50 +0000 Upset that a woman did not reciprocate his romantic feelings, a 31-year-old man in Singapore posted lewd and derogatory comments about her on social media, even going so far as uploading her personal details. As a result of Koh Liang Min’s actions, the victim not only suffered emotionally but financially, too, as two students withdrew from the piano classes she ran on a freelance basis. On Monday, Koh was sentenced to three weeks’ imprisonment after pleading guilty to three counts of harassment.... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3215941/singapore-jails-man-who-harassed-piano-teacher-online-after-she-rejected-him-romantically?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3215941/singapore-jails-man-who-harassed-piano-teacher-online-after-she-rejected-him-romantically?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 04 Apr 2023 08:00:21 +0000 Half of expatriates in Singapore have been hit by rent increases of more than 40 per cent, while about seven in 10 businesses are ready to relocate their staff out of the city state if there is no relief from rising operating costs, a survey has found. Conducted by the European Chamber of Commerce in Singapore (EuroCham), the survey aimed to assess the extent and severity of the impact of rising costs on business operations in the country. The report on the survey, released on Monday, warned... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3215056/singapore-will-lose-its-attractiveness-foreign-firms-if-rising-costs-continue-european-businesses?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3215056/singapore-will-lose-its-attractiveness-foreign-firms-if-rising-costs-continue-european-businesses?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 28 Mar 2023 02:01:54 +0000