SINGAPORE: A Chinese national was offered a 30,000 yuan (S$5,600) reward if he came to Singapore to retrieve nearly $500,000 in cash and valuables that two burglars had earlier stolen. Food deliveryman Wu Jinxing, 28, who earned around 200 yuan a day, accepted the offer and arrived in Singapore on July 27. He then went to a...
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): Law and Home Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam and Manpower Minister Tan See Leng are taking legal action against Bloomberg and other media outlets for publishing statements concerning their property transactions, which they consider libellous. The statements were first published in a Dec 12 Bloomberg article on good class bungalow transactions in Singapore...
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): The Cold Moon, the final full moon of 2024, looks set to light up the night sky – and social media – on Sunday night (Dec 15). Nasa, the United States’ space agency, said the moon would appear full for about three days – from the evening of Dec 13 through the...
SINGAPORE: A man has been charged with murder after a Vietnamese woman was killed in a knife attack in Hougang on Tuesday (Dec 10). The incident also left another man injured. Chinese national Du Zaixing appeared in court via video link on Thursday (Dec 12) as his charge was read out to him. He faces the death...
SINGAPORE: The rogue Singapore tycoon, who was arrested in Malaysia on Dec 3 after being on the run for 19 years over an embezzlement case involving more than US$51 million, was the mastermind behind a syndicate that sold scraps that were repackaged and sold as new products. Ng Teck Lee, 58, who was arrested together with...
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): A 44-year-old man involved in various vehicle businesses has been fined S$1.5 million (RM6.7 million) for fraudulent evasion of duty and goods and services tax (GST) on 427 motor vehicles imported into Singapore between January 2019 and October 2020. Jason Liang Huan Shuo, a Singaporean, was also sentenced to five weeks’ jail...
SINGAPORE: When told by a “police officer” that she might be implicated in money laundering, a woman feared she would be dragged into the S$3 billion case. Wanting to be known only as Grace, the retiree, 67, said that even though she was never involved in crime, she thought about Singapore’s biggest money laundering case that...
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): Popular eatery ABC Nasi Kandar in Singapore, which shut its chain of food stalls abruptly in the last few months, is under probe by the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) for possible illegal employment offences. In reply to queries from The Straits Times, an MOM spokesperson said it is investigating ABC Nasi Kandar...
SINGAPORE: It was minutes to midnight when two amateur photographers wandering near one of Singapore’s few remaining natural streams chanced across a slumbering snake they had never seen before. Forest streams like Lorong Banir in northern Singapore are increasingly rare amid the city-state’s expansive urbanisation, and in recent years, the delicate habitat has drawn nature enthusiasts...
SINGAPORE: A 46-year-old owner of a Novena penthouse paid more than S$152,000 to renovate his home, but over a year later, work remains unfinished while the contractor is nowhere to be found. Today, the more than 3,000 sq ft penthouse unit remains in a mess, with construction material piled up in the rooms and wires dangling...
