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A former Singapore television journalist has been released on a S$5,000 personal bond after spending over five months in remand on multiple charges including criminal trespass and causing alarm through insulting remarks.
Singapore is enacting stricter anti-scam legislation targeting those who provide online accounts for criminal activity. The new laws increase maximum penalties and fines while deploying AI-powered detection to combat syndicates exploiting social platforms.
A Singapore court will review an active arrest warrant for lawyer Lim Tean, who failed to report for a three-month-and-one-week jail sentence on July 20. The review is set for August 17, following his conviction for practising law without proper credentials.
A 31-year-old Singapore woman has been sentenced to two weeks' imprisonment and a S$2,400 fine for abandoning her crashed vehicle in Bugis to have supper with friends, compounding poor civic conduct.
A 19-year-old Singaporean has been fined $600 after pleading guilty to causing public nuisance by filming himself licking a straw from a vending machine and posting the footage online.
Singapore has charged a company and its director for providing flag registration services to PETREL 8, a bulk carrier designated by the UN Security Council for illegally transporting banned North Korean exports including coal and iron ore.
A 19-year-old Singaporean has been fined S$600 after pleading guilty to being a public nuisance for filming himself licking a straw from an iJooz vending machine and sharing the video on Instagram, forcing the company to replace 500 straws.
Singapore's High Court has slashed former actor Edmund Chen's jail sentence from five days to one day for a 2025 traffic accident that injured a motorcyclist. The actor now faces a maximum fine and five-year driving ban instead.
Nearly half of Singapore's civil divorces in 2025 cite unreasonable behaviour as the primary reason, while adultery accounts for less than 1 per cent. Legal experts attribute this disparity to structural differences between civil and Muslim divorce frameworks rather than behavioural patterns.
Singapore authorities have fined two co-founders of Fullerton Healthcare Corporation a combined S$160,000 for falsifying entertainment claims totalling more than S$211,000. The scheme was designed to funnel money to a third party rather than enrich the doctors themselves.
Singapore's High Court has dismissed a six-year constitutional challenge by the advocacy group Lawyers for Liberty against a Pofma correction directive, ruling the court cannot compel government intervention in the matter.