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In 1994, a court in Singapore sentenced an American teenager, Michael Fay (born 30 May 1975), [1] to be lashed six times with a cane for violating the Vandalism Act.This caused a temporary strain in relations between Singapore and the United States.
On 5 November 2018, States Times Review, published an article alleging that Malaysia had signed several unfair agreements with Singapore in exchange for Singapore banks’ assistance in laundering the Malaysian state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) and implicated Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in the alleged crime.
The Singapore Tiger Standard, an English morning daily newspaper, was accused as "anti-Merdeka" by S. Rajaratnam, [7] and was closed in 1959 after the People's Action Party came to power. [ 8 ] In 1971, the Government crackdown on newspapers perceived to be under foreign influence or with subversive tendencies; saw the closing of The Eastern ...
The paper was founded as The Straits Times and Singapore Journal of Commerce on 15 July 1845. [11] [12] The Straits Times was launched as an eight-page weekly, published at 7 Commercial Square using a hand-operated press. The subscription fee then was Sp.$1.75 per month.
Singapore Press Holdings Limited (SPH) was formed on August 4, 1984, through a merger of three organisations, The Straits Times Press Group, Singapore News and Publications Limited and Times Publishing Berhad. [3] SPH readership has stagnated since the early-2000s, as Singaporeans increasingly turned to online media for their news consumption. [4]
Changi Prison, where Singapore's death row is located Capital punishment in Singapore is a legal penalty. Executions in Singapore are carried out by long drop hanging, and usually take place at dawn. Thirty-three offences—including murder, drug trafficking, terrorism, use of firearms and kidnapping —warrant the death penalty under Singaporean law. In 2012, Singapore amended its laws to ...
Boston, United States [79] 5.82 m Tia Rozario: 23 February 2024 ACC Championships Boston, United States [80] Triple jump: 12.67 m Tia Rozario: 11 February 2023 Giegengack Invitational New Haven, United States [81] 12.81 m Tia Rozario: 24 February 2024 ACC Championships Boston, United States [82] Shot put: 17.99 m Zhang Guirong: 15 November 2005 ...
In November 2019, under the act, the government of Singapore requested Facebook to add a correction notice to a post from Alex Tan's States Times Review after Tan refused to add the notice himself. The post included allegations involving election rigging, which Singapore claimed were false. [28]