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Singapore jails Chinese national 3 months, for selling fake Taylor Swift tickets, helping trio gatecrash concert
A man who cheated three people by selling them fake Taylor Swift concert tickets and later helped them gatecrash the concert was sentenced to three months’ jail.
Singapore starts dual probes of Baltimore bridge collapse
SINGAPORE -- Singapore will launch dual investigations of the Baltimore bridge collapse, in which a vessel flagged under the city-state collided with a flyover in the U.S. state of Maryland. Six construction workers are presumed to have been killed in the accident.
Singapore jails Myanmar helper who punched, bit 101-year-old woman for ‘no reason’, and taped her mouth to stop her screams
Aye Aye Aung, a 32-year-old Myanmar national, had been caring for the victim, who is on a feeding tube, for about three years. She pleaded guilty on Thursday to two charges of voluntarily causing hurt.
Singapore charges two ex-Sembcorp Marine employees with bribing Brazilian officials almost US$44 million
Trade in Seatrium shares was suspended for the news. The stock has dropped 33 per cent this year, underperforming the benchmark stock index, which is relatively flat, LSEG data showed.
A new Japanese restaurant tops 'Asia's 50 Best Restaurants' list
Tokyo's Sézanne is the newly crowned winner of "Asia's 50 Best Restaurants 2024" list.
South-east Asia human trafficking now a global crisis, Interpol says
SINGAPORE — Organised crime rings who fuelled an "explosion" of human trafficking and cyber scam centres during the pandemic have expanded from South-east Asia into a global network making up to US$3 trillion (S$4 trillion) a year, the head of Interpol said on March 27.