Michael Li Qing’An was sentenced to two years’ jail and three strokes of the cane on Nov 18. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Singapore lost more than $2.8 billion to scammers between 2020 and 2025 SINGAPORE plans to unleash at least six brutal strokes of the cane on convicted online scammers, a minister told lawmakers on ...

Singapore, where spitting in public and selling chewing gum is illegal, has long been known for its strict laws. Now, scammers and recruiters for scam groups face a legal crackdown that allows them to ...

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.

When it came to punishment back in medieval Europe, people got whipped, branded, and occasionally beheaded for stealing bread. Fast-forward to 2025, and Singapore’s taking a page from that old ...

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 parliament on Tuesday passed a law that introduced caning as a punishment for scammers and money mules, as the country battles a scourge of fraud cases. Under the Criminal Law ...

Singapore has disclosed plans to impose mandatory caning on convicted online scammers, with offenders facing at least six strokes, as the government intensified crackdown on cybercrime syndicates ...

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.

An Indian nurse at Singapore's Raffles Hospital received a jail sentence of 14 months and two strokes of the cane for molesting a male visitor in a hospital toilet. The 34-year-old nurse, Elipe Siva ...