Singapore—Is Virgil Griffith a criminal or a hero? Opinions seem divided over the Singapore-based cryptocurrency enthusiast arrested in the United States at the Los Angeles International Airport on Thanksgiving Day, November 28. The 36-year-old Mr Griffith, who visited North Korea in April, is accused of conspiring with North Korea from August 2018 onwards and is detained […]
Singapore—Joint teams of police from Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia, and Singapore have successfully exposed and brought to justice members of a transnational syndicate that had scammed 139 women from different countries out of S$5.8 million. Police officers from SPF’s Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) joined the team, along with the Commercial Crime Investigation Department (CCID) of […]
On November 27, Wednesday, Chinese-owned social media video app TikTok admitted to an error in having blocked Feroza Aziz, a 17-year-old American who had posted content critical of China’s policies towards Muslims in Xinjiang. TikTok apologized to Ms Aziz, and pledged that access to her account would be restored. Furthermore, the company added that they […]
Singapore’s number one power couple, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his wife, Ho Ching, the Chief Executive Officer of Temasek Holdings, displayed a softer side in recent photos taken in South Korea, where PM Lee is currently attending the ASEAN summit meetings. The Prime Minister, who is known to take and post photos of […]
Hong Kong—The residents of Hong Kong sent a clear message to Beijing at the elections on Sunday, November 24, with an overwhelming majority of votes going to pro-democracy candidates after more than five months of protests that have rocked the city. Voters turned out in droves, with over 70 percent trooping to the polls, in […]
Hong Kong— The South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported that while demonstrators have faced off against the police in different universities in Hong Kong since earlier this month, quotes from Singapore’s founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew have been circulating on Whats App, with some speculating on what Mr Lee would have done concerning the […]
Singapore—In his recent trip to Mexico, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong hailed the growing relations between the two countries, noting that Singapore and Mexico have similar “histories and dispositions,” and saying that this is one of the reasons for the stronger ties. Addressing Mexico’s Senate on Tuesday, November 19, he said, of Mexico and Singapore, […]
A Nigerian senator who allegedly plagiarized Singapore’s Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (POFMA) has said that the similarities between his draft bill and POFMA, which took effect on October 2, is because the two bills have a common subject matter. Accusations that Senator Sani Musa had copied Singapore’s law against online falsehoods made […]
Hong Kong — Thursday, November 21, saw the youngest person in the months-long demonstrations in Hong Kong plead guilty to two counts of criminal damage which occurred last month, four months after the increasingly violent protests started in June. The boy reportedly sprayed obscene graffiti at an exit at Prince Edward MTR as well as […]
