Singaporean Woman Faces Imminent Execution After Being Found With Over 11kg Of Drugs In Shenzhen
Being charged for a crime in a foreign land is made more difficult due to the unfamiliarity of the laws there, possible language barrier, and lack of access to your loved ones.
For those convicted and sentenced to death, it’s possibly the worst possible scenario as they might never see anything resembling home again.
That’s the plight that Siti Aslinda, 35, is facing after being convicted of drug trafficking in China.
Thankfully, she and another similarly convicted Singaporean, 44-year-old Mohd Yusri, are being assisted by Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA).
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BW Rhine, a Singapore-registered commercial oil tanker, was attacked by an explosives-laden boat , according to an official spokesman for Saudi Arabia s Ministry of Energy.
It is yet unclear who was behind the attack and there are no other details about the explosive-laden vessel at this point.
BW Rhine was anchored in Jeddah, a Saudi port.
It was reported to be damaged in the early hours of Monday, said Singapore s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) in a statement yesterday.
The tanker suffered hull damage and there was a small fire, but the 22 crew members - none of them is Singaporean - were not injured, added MFA.
Vietnam, Singapore agree on a travel bubble
By Nguyen Quy December 17, 2020 | 08:01 am GMT+7
Vietnamese citizens on a repatriation flight from Singapore, May 31, 2020. Photo courtesy of Vietnam Airlines.
The governments of Vietnam and Singapore plan to resume two-way commercial flights between the two countries for business and official travel next year.
Permanent Secretary of Singapore s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), Chee Wee Kiong, and Vietnam s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Quoc Dung agreed to expeditiously conclude ongoing discussions on a green lane agreement for essential business and official travel and restore regular commercial flights between the two countries next year, the Singapore s foreign ministry said in a statement Tuesday.
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Singapore and Vietnam have agreed to expeditiously conclude ongoing discussions on a green lane agreement for essential business and official travel, said Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). MFA’s permanent secretary Chee Wee Kiong and Vietnam’s vice minister of foreign affairs Nguyen Quoc Dung have ‘tasked officials to finalise the green lane agreement by early next year’, said MFA in a statement.
The two countries are also seeking to reinstate regular commercial return flights between them.
“Singapore will be among the first few countries with which Vietnam will resume regularised essential business and official travel,” said MFA.