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Singapore News - Retired local actor-director Ng Aik Leong, better known as Huang Yiliang, has been given a conditional warning over his pending affray charge under which he was accused of disturbing the public peace by fighting with another man on June 9, 2018. Ng is said to have used his... Read more at www.tnp.sg
Singapore News - A director of three companies that supplied prohibited luxury goods worth almost $576,000 to North Korea has had his jail term doubled from three weeks to six weeks, following an appeal by the prosecution. The fines handed down to each of the three companies were also more... Read more at www.tnp.sg
The judge said Chong Hock Yen's action caused substantial harm to Singapore's standing and reputation. . Read more at straitstimes.com.
At Democracy and Disinformation, a conference on why fake news and other forms of disinformation threaten our freedoms, a group of panelists discusses President Rodrigo Duterte as a main source of false claims. Veteran journalist Ellen Tordesillas of VERA Files says it's difficult for journalists to maintain accuracy in covering the president amid the burden to report accurately what the source says. University of the Philippines professor Diosa Labiste, meanwhile, is concerned about the practice of lying among leaders. Labiste: Lies allow for a polarized, violent politics. It would in...
A widower who repeatedly stabbed his eldest daughter near a bus stop, and then returned to knife her again when he realised she was still alive, was sentenced to 15 years' jail.