Birthday surprise gone wrong: Man gets 15 months' probation for sneaking into friend's hotel room while she was under SHN, Singapore News,SINGAPORE – A 20-year-old man who visited a friend in a hotel room where she was under a stay-home notice (SHN) was on Wednesday (Sept 8) sentenced to p
Hong Kong pro-independence activists given jail term for Parliament chaos, Asia News,HONG KONG – Two Hong Kong independence activists who were stripped of their status as lawmakers in 2016 were sentenced to four weeks in prison on Monday (June 4) for their role in a fracas that disrupted proceedings
China sentences Gui Minhai, Hong Kong bookseller, to 10 years in jail, China News,BEIJING – A Chinese court sentenced Chinese-born Swedish citizen Gui Minhai to 10 years in jail on Monday (Feb 24) for illegally providing intelligence overseas, the Ningbo Intermediate People's Court said in a st
'You're threatening to put me in a cage?' Briton fined $8,000 for repeatedly refusing to wear mask in City Square Mall, Singapore News,SINGAPORE – A 55-year-old Briton who repeatedly refused to wear a mask in public when it was mandatory to do so has been fined $8,000 after pleading g
Children's camp instructor sexually abused 4 underaged daughters over 14 years, Singapore News,SINGAPORE – Over a period of 14 years, a 45-year-old man who has seven children molested four of his five daughters and raped three of them. Besides sexually abusing his daughters, the man also admitt
Short detention order for e-bike rider who rode into jogger, causing brain injury, Singapore News,SINGAPORE – A teenager who caused a brain injury to a jogger after riding into him on his power-assisted bicycle (PAB) was sentenced to a week's short detention order on Tuesday (April 16). Joven H
Primary school employee jailed for misappropriating over $41k of pupils' money, Singapore News,SINGAPORE – A primary school customer service officer misappropriated more than $41,000 of the money paid by pupils for items such as school trips and co-curricular activities (CCA). Siti Rafeah Abd H
Apartment unit to 'pop-up' brothel: Man finds himself in court after signing tenancy agreement for a 'friend', Singapore News,In Aug 2022, the High Court dismissed the appeal of a man charged with signing tenancy agreements for an apartment unit that was later used as a brothel.
Life imprisonment, caning for 29-year-old who killed girlfriend's baby, Singapore News,SINGAPORE – A 29-year-old man who murdered his girlfriend's nine-month-old son by pushing the baby's head against the floorboard of his van was sentenced to life imprisonment and 15 strokes of the c
Coronavirus: Woman caught not wearing mask in Sun Plaza tells court she has multiple personalities, Singapore News,SINGAPORE – A woman who was caught on video berating at least two men in Sun Plaza shopping mall after refusing to wear a mask told a district court on Friday (June 12) she has \”extreme
Felicity Huffman among 14 to plead guilty in US college admissions scandal: Prosecutors, World News,BOSTON – Actress Felicity Huffman and 13 other people have agreed to plead guilty to participating in what prosecutors call the largest college admissions scam uncovered in US history, federal prosecu
Man threatens hairstylist who refused to provide sexual services, punches passerby, Singapore News,SINGAPORE – Angry at a bus driver for telling him to stop talking on the phone due to Covid-19 restrictions, a 53-year-old man verbally abused him and repeatedly slammed his fist on the driver's p
