SINGAPORE: From Dec 1, Singapore permanent residents (PRs) who leave the country without a valid re-entry permit will get about six months to apply for one before losing their PR status. Currently, PRs who are outside Singapore without a valid re-entry permit lose their residency status. They have a one-month grace period after their re-entry permits...
SINGAPORE: A woman was in a house near MacPherson Road when she allegedly lifted her sleeping gown and exposed herself to her son, who was then 16 years old. On Friday (Sept 26), the 57-year-old Singaporean was charged with one count each of sexual exposure and harassment. She cannot be named due to a gag order to...
SINGAPORE: A 67-year-old grandfather has been sentenced to 36 months’ jail for molesting his granddaughter, who was 13 years old at the time, on two separate occasions. The man had earlier pleaded guilty to two charges of using of criminal force on a person with intent to outrage modesty. Both the man and the teenager cannot be...
JAKARTA: Indonesia’s police are working with the Singapore Police Force (SPF) to probe a cross-border baby trafficking ring uncovered in West Java, officials said. The joint investigation, coordinated through Interpol’s National Central Bureau in Jakarta, was launched after authorities discovered a smuggling route linking Bandung, Pontianak and Jakarta to Singapore. In a statement, Bureau Secretary Brigadier General...
The Taiwan dollar led Asian currency declines on Friday, logging a seventh straight session of losses and slipping to a more than three-month low, as foreign investors sold local stocks and the island's residents bought overseas bonds. The Taiwan dollar weakened 0.6% to 30.682 per U.S. dollar and is on track for its worst weekly percentage...
SINGAPORE: A man accused of sexually assaulting a two-year-old girl was working as a cook at her pre-school. Teo Guan Huat allegedly targeted the toddler in school on at least eight occasions between May 2023 and November 2023. He is being named by The Straits Times for the first time after Deputy Public Prosecutor Claire Poh clarified...
SINGAPORE: Billionaire tycoon Ong Beng Seng was fined S$30,000 on Friday (Aug 15) for abetting the obstruction of justice in a case linked to former transport minister S. Iswaran. Ong, 79, was handed the maximum fine for the offence after he had earlier pleaded guilty on Aug 4. When Principal District Judge Lee Lit Cheng delivered the...
SINGAPORE: Property tycoon Ong Beng Seng pleaded guilty on Aug 4 to abetting the obstruction of justice in a case linked to former transport minister S. Iswaran. Ong is expected to be sentenced on Aug 15. His bail of S$800,000 (US$621,552) has been extended. The prosecution acknowledged that while eight weeks imprisonment would ordinarily be warranted, judicial...
SINGAPORE: Three people were taken to hospital after a fire broke out in an HDB flat in Toa Payoh on Tuesday (July 29). The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said in a Facebook post that it was alerted to the fire at Block 229 Lorong 8 Toa Payoh at about 1pm. The fire was raging inside a...
Singaporean singer JJ Lin disclosed on July 13 that he was diagnosed with a heart problem in April 2024 and has been on daily medication. The 44-year-old dropped the bombshell on the final day of his nine-day concert series at Beijing’s National Stadium. He kicked off his JJ20 Final Lap World Tour in Singapore with two nights at...
