THE ISLAND REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE IS a tightly run ship. The bustling city-state at the tip of the Malay Peninsula is forbiddingly clean and orderly, and antisocial behavior simply isn't tolerated. An ...

Hosting the U.S./North Korea summit between President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un has Singapore in the international spotlight this week, as it was in the spring of 1994 for a very different reason.

To combat a surge in modern-day online scams, Singapore has turned to a punishment from the past: caning. This week, Singapore’s Parliament amended criminal law in the city-state to introduce caning ...

Singapore, notorious for its strict laws, including a ban on spitting in public and selling chewing gum, may punish convicted fraudsters with caning, according to statements from lawmakers reported by ...

This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team based upon its relevance and interest to our community. Singaporeans lost an average of $4031 each to scams in 2023, ...

Singapore's government said Friday that scammers will face mandatory caning of up to 24 strokes from Dec. 30, under changes to criminal law to deter surging fraud cases. The changes, passed by ...

As Singapore’s ambassador to the U.S., I would like to clarify some misperceptions conveyed in Jon Pelson’s Feb. 6 op-ed “Lee Kuan Yew’s Cane and Trump’s Tariffs” about the way our country carries out ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Singapore’s government said Friday that scammers will face mandatory caning of up to 24 strokes from ...