MANILA: Seventeen members of an Islamic State-linked militant group have been sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping foreign and Filipino nationals in Malaysia nearly 25 years ago, the Philippine Justice Department said on Monday (Oct 21). In April 2000, members of the Abu Sayyaf group kidnapped at gunpoint 21 people from a holiday resort on...
KAJANG: A former babysitter at a childcare centre has been sentenced to 14 months in prison for endangering a toddler by force-feeding her, which could have caused physical harm. Sessions Court Judge Mazuliana Abdul Rashid delivered the sentence on 24-year-old Nor A’in Ismail, who maintained her guilty plea during sentencing. The sentence will be served from...
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): When her son had to move out of his flat after he punched his wife for refusing sex, an 81-year-old woman agreed to take him in, even though other relatives tried to dissuade her from doing so. For her kindness, she was repaid with a violent attack by her own flesh and...
SINGAPORE (Bernama): A director-general at Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) was sentenced to a week in jail on Monday for giving false information to a public servant over the use of diplomatic bags to deliver luxury watches from China to Singapore for a friend, Straits Times (ST) reported. Gilbert Oh Hin Kwan, 45, who pleaded...
KUALA LUMPUR: A former policewoman who accepted a RM6,000 bribe to shut down a molest case has been fined RM8,000 in default of 40 days' jail by the Sessions Court here. The accused, Nur Mastisha Maidinsha, 39 pleaded guilty to two counts of accepting bribes totalling RM6,000 from the father of a suspect in a sexual...
PETALING JAYA: A 34-year-old man was fined RM12,000 and sentenced to six months in jail over an insulting Facebook post on the controversial socks issue. Chiok Wai Loong pleaded guilty to the charge under Section 233(1)(a) of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 after it was read out to him before Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court judge...
SINGAPORE: A man who disciplined his nine-year-old son by hitting him several times with two umbrellas and a cane was sentenced to three weeks’ jail on Jan 29. The 45-year-old man committed the offence after his wife suspected the boy had stolen $50 during a birthday party. He also used the cane to hit her when she...
