Singapore insisted Tuesday it would still cane a British man convicted of drug smuggling despite a plea from London not to proceed with the punishment. Yuen Ye Ming was sentenced by a Singapore court ...
Michael Fay, an American high school student living in Singapore, finally received his punishment for vandalism and spray painting cars: four lashes across his bare butt with a rattan cane. Prison ...
After two months of anguished, international debate about crime and effective punishment, American teen-ager Michael Fay was lashed with four strokes of a rattan cane in a prison here yesterday for ...
A top foreign correspondent who was locked up in Singaporean jail has shared his personal experience of what happens when a person goes to prison in the forbidding authoritarian state. Five Melbourne ...
Singapore, Feb 20 (AFP) Singapore has agreed not to cane a man accused of carrying out a rare bank robbery in the city-state if Britain extradites him to face charges, officials said today. David ...
When flying to Singapore, watch your language or you could face more than a stern scolding. A 47-year-old Australian man learned this lesson earlier this month when he got into an altercation with ...
Singapore insisted Tuesday it would still cane a British man convicted of drug smuggling despite a plea from London not to proceed with the punishment. Flogging with a rattan cane, a legacy of British ...