SINGAPORE: A man who used threatening behaviour toward an airport shuttle bus driver at Changi Airport in January was charged in court on Friday (Mar 14). Xu Yixuan was at the departure bus bay of Changi Airport Terminal 1 on Jan 31 when he allegedly blocked the shuttle bus andContinue Reading
SINGAPORE: Investigations have revealed that the total amount involved in the offences for three men accused of fraud over the movement of Nvidia chips is in the region of US$390 million (S$519 million). The prosecution on Thursday (Mar 13) revealed the sum related to the cases of Aaron Woon Guo Jie, 41,Continue Reading
SINGAPORE: A man who deceived the former SPRING Singapore into disbursing S$85,000 (S$63,700) through its Innovation and Capability Voucher (ICV) scheme was sentenced to 22 months’ jail on Wednesday (Mar 12). Donovan Goh Shen Shu, 36, pleaded guilty to five counts of cheating and five of falsifying accounts for offencesContinue Reading
SINGAPORE: A doctor accused of giving fake COVID-19 jabs to patients claimed that the police asked him to name Healing the Divide founder Iris Koh as the “mastermind” of a scheme to secure a recommendation for bail. Dr Jipson Quah, 36, testified on Wednesday (Mar 12) to the events leadingContinue Reading
SINGAPORE: A 23-year-old man was charged on Wednesday (Mar 12) for exposing himself to cabin crew member on flight to Singapore. Indonesian national Brilliant Angjaya allegedly unzipped his pants and exposed his genitals while at his seat on Jan 23, 2025, during a flight to Singapore. According to aContinue Reading
SINGAPORE: An Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) officer who was found not guilty on a few charges of graft – involving him receiving a massage and sexual services from a woman – had his acquittal overturned on Tuesday (Mar 11). On appeal at the High Court, Teo Hwee Peng wasContinue Reading
SINGAPORE: A man due to attend a hearing at the State Courts decided to place a packet of drugs in the bushes outside the building before going in. Sajan Oberoi, 35, intended to pick up the packet of methamphetamine and other items after his court mention. He was nabbed byContinue Reading
DEFENCES In separate but largely similar defences filed to the court, Bloomberg and Mr Low maintained that the words were not defamatory. As a news platform focused on reports relating to finance, markets and economics, Bloomberg has “no interest nor reason to, and did not in fact impugn the reputationContinue Reading
SINGAPORE: A director of a company who was given funds to finance an order gambled away most of that money instead. Hendra Lim Yew Keng, 51, ended up losing much more than the amount he had siphoned from his business associate. Lim, a Singaporean, was sentenced to two years andContinue Reading
SINGAPORE: Pritam Singh’s guilty verdict may affect his standing but the case is unlikely to be an election game changer for the Workers’ Party (WP), political analysts said. How this will change the way the public views him will depend on how closely voters followed the case and their initialContinue Reading
