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Singapore has banned British trip-hop band Massive Attack from performing following a police investigation into two members displaying a Palestinian flag during a Wednesday concert.
Singapore's police have moved to prosecute a shipping services company and its director for registering a vessel blacklisted by the UN Security Council for transporting prohibited North Korean cargo, signalling strict enforcement of international sanctions.
A 45-year-old Singapore secondary school physical education teacher has admitted to three counts of sexual penetration of a minor. He groomed and abused a student aged 14-15 across hotel and school locations in 2022-2023.
Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong has unveiled a significant cabinet restructuring, elevating K. Shanmugam to Senior Minister and creating a new Ministry of Energy, Trade, and Industry effective October 1.
An Indonesian court has convicted all 19 members of a human trafficking ring that smuggled dozens of babies, including at least 12 to Singapore. The mastermind received seven years imprisonment.
An electric vehicle ignited near an HDB carpark entrance in Woodlands on July 21 morning, with the blaze originating from the battery compartment. The Singapore Civil Defence Force extinguished the fire; no injuries were sustained.
Indonesian authorities arrested a 34-year-old Singaporean man in Jakarta on July 17 after raiding a house in the upscale Pantai Indah Kapuk area where etomidate vapes were being manufactured and distributed.
A 26-year-old Singaporean has been arrested by Bali police on suspicion of strangling his Indonesian girlfriend at a boarding house in Denpasar. The body was discovered by her brother, and investigators believe relationship problems motivated the alleged crime.
Singapore President Tharman Shanmugaratnam has concluded his three-day state visit to Malaysia, departing from Kuala Lumpur International Airport on July 15. The visit reciprocated Sultan Ibrahim's May 2024 trip to Singapore and underscored bilateral ties.
A 58-year-old Singapore man has been sentenced to five weeks in jail after driving under the influence and ploughing his car through the Fountain of Wealth at Suntec City, causing nearly S$64,600 in damage.
Singapore's new S$50 million SG Partnerships Fund has received over 200 applications from community organisations and individuals. The fund, launched in April 2026, supports projects ranging from mental health advocacy to charitable gift-matching platforms.
Singapore police have arrested a 40-year-old man suspected of making anonymous bomb threats against Parliament House and the Home Team Science and Technology Agency, according to authorities.
Singapore authorities have charged four individuals in connection with an elaborate gold smuggling operation that used signal converters as concealment. The scheme involved VAT fraud targeting Chinese authorities and money laundering through regional trade networks.
A 28-year-old trainee doctor from Singapore has pleaded guilty to secretly filming more than 500 colleagues in toilets and showers across three Melbourne hospitals, with police recovering over 10,000 video and image files from his devices.
Singapore's land authority revealed that personal information of approximately 70,000 residents was exposed through unauthorised access to a development environment managed by IBM. The breach involved test data that should have been anonymised but contained real identity details.
Singapore's High Court has rejected Standard Chartered Bank's appeal to dismiss a US$2.7 billion lawsuit filed by 1MDB liquidators, paving the way for trial proceedings over the bank's alleged facilitation of fund misappropriation.
A Singapore doctor has been convicted of consuming MDMA after police raided a villa party at a Sentosa hotel in August 2023. The case highlights enforcement efforts against recreational drug use in the city-state.
A former executive chairman of two Singapore mosques has been sentenced to 14 months in jail for corruptly steering construction contracts worth S$223,000 to a friend's company through insider pricing advice.
A 23-year-old former Singapore permanent resident has been fined S$9,000 after pleading guilty to remaining outside the country without a valid exit permit and defaulting on national service duties.
Following a Supreme Court setback, the Trump administration is reconstructing its tariff regime using Section 301 trade investigations. The new approach creates winners and losers across Asia-Pacific, with implications for Malaysian exporters and regional supply chains.
Three Singapore specialist doctors have lost their High Court bid to overturn a tax ruling after the authorities determined they used complex corporate structures to avoid income tax through minimal salaries and substantial tax-exempt dividends.
Two people were rescued from a burning 13th-floor flat in Singapore's Jurong West early on June 17, with four family members hospitalised. Preliminary findings suggest an electrical fault in the living room triggered the blaze.