A Singapore court has sentenced a Japanese man to jail and caning for the “brutal and cruel” rape of a university student in 2019. The 38-year-old hairdresser, Ikko Kita, is set to be the first Japanese national to be caned … Read more →
Sir Richard Branson has turned down an invitation from Singapore’s government to take part in a live television debate about the country’s approach towards drugs and the death penalty. He was invited to take part in a discussion with the … Read more →
The body of Robert Mugabe has left Singapore on a private flight destined for his home country of Zimbabwe. The former president had been receiving hospital treatment in the city state before he died last week aged 95. Mr Mugabe … Read more →
Convicted drug trafficker Billy Agbozo was executed last Friday (March 9) after he failed in his clemency plea. Agbozo, 39, a Ghanaian national, had been found guilty and sentenced to death on July 4, 2016, for trafficking 1.63kg of methamphetamine … Read more →