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...
BEIJING: A deputy to a prominent Chinese diplomat being questioned by authorities was also detained, three people with knowledge of the matter said, a further sign of uncertainty in the top echelons of China's diplomacy. Sun Haiyan (pic), a senior diplomat and former ambassador to Singapore, was detained in early August around the time Liu Jianchao,...
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...
SINGAPORE: A young man was ordered on July 11 to undergo probation for a year and six months after he was caught performing a lewd act on his neighbour’s cat, which did not suffer any injuries. As part of his sentence, the offender, who is now 20, must remain indoors from 10pm to 6am every day...
SINGAPORE: A doctor who prescribed various unapproved hormones, including one made from desiccated pig thyroid glands, has failed in his appeal to the highest court to quash his convictions and sentences by the Singapore Medical Council (SMC). Instead, the conviction against Dr Ian Lee Pheng Lip, a general practitioner from Integrated Medicine Clinic, stands. His 18-month suspension...
SINGAPORE: A female primary school teacher allegedly committed sexual acts on an underage boy in 2019. The boy, who was one of her students, was between 13 and 14 years old at the time. She faces four charges in total, and court documents did not disclose if she was still his teacher when she allegedly committed...
SINGAPORE: A man offered to pay a teenager S$1,500 a month to be her “sugar daddy” after he came across the girl’s sexually explicit video which was shared on a messaging platform. Despite knowing the 17-year-old girl has a history of being suicidal, he later extorted her into sending him another sexually explicit video after threatening...
JOHOR BARU: From tomorrow, Singaporean vehicles entering Malaysia without a valid Vehicle Entry Permit (VEP) will face an immediate RM300 compound, as full enforcement at the Malaysia-Singapore land border kicks in. The enforcement was in line with Section 66H(7) of the Road Transport Act 1987 (Act 333), which states that it is an offence for anyone...
