Hosting the U.S./North Korea summit between President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un has Singapore in the international spotlight this week, as it was in the spring of 1994 for a very different reason.

Singapore, notorious for its strict laws, including a ban on spitting in public and selling chewing gum, may punish convicted fraudsters with caning, according to statements from lawmakers reported by ...

Singapore plans to punish online scammers with at least six strokes with a cane, a minister told lawmakers on Tuesday, as the city-state doubles down on syndicates following record-high scam losses.

Singapore plans to punish online scammers with at least six strokes with a cane, a minister told lawmakers on Tuesday, as the city-state doubles down on syndicates following record-high scam losses.

Singapore’s government will consider caning as punishment for some scam-related offenses, Minister of State for Home Affairs Sun Xueling said during a parliamentary debate Tuesday. The Southeast Asian ...

As Singapore’s ambassador to the U.S., I would like to clarify some misperceptions conveyed in Jon Pelson’s Feb. 6 op-ed “Lee Kuan Yew’s Cane and Trump’s Tariffs” about the way our country carries out ...

This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team based upon its relevance and interest to our community. Singaporeans lost an average of $4031 each to scams in 2023, ...

Actor Vedang Raina plays Ankur Anand in Jigra. In this scene, he gets punished with caning in a fictional South-Asian country(Screengrab from YouTube/Dharma ...

A Japanese national, Kita Iko (38), has become the first Japanese person to be sentenced to caning in Singapore. Singapore enforces caning as a punishment for sex offenders. On the 3rd (local time), ...