The Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) has issued an S$8,000 fine against a law firm after an administrative staff was found sending email correspondences meant for a client to an incorrect email address by mistake on two separate occasions in 2017. A third email correspondence was mistakenly sent by Matthew Chiong Partnership’s Managing Partner and Data Protection Officer to the …

38 companies including renowned bakery and food manufacturing firm BreadTalk were slapped with hefty fines for disposing regulated chemicals over allowable limits into public sewers over the period of Jun last year and May this year. Public Utilities Board (PUB) said yesterday (10 Jun) that BreadTalk was fined S$16,300 under the Sewerage and Drainage (Trade Effluent) Regulations (SD(TE)R) after it …

Less than a year after its neighbour India repealed a colonial-era law which criminalised homosexuality for centuries, the kingdom of Bhutan’s National Assembly had almost unanimously passed an amendment to the nation’s Penal Code on Fri (7 Jun). Local dailies Kuensel and The Bhutanese reported that only one parliamentarian in Bhutan’s lower house of Parliament voted against the amendment to repeal …

The Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) has issued a S$4,000 fine against a computer service vendor for a programming error that resulted in the disclosure of the personal data of over 400 national servicemen (NSmen) in Jun last year, comprising the NSmen’s login identification, email addresses, delivery addresses and mobile numbers. Option Gift Pte Ltd, the vendor responsible for handling …

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s recent remarks on Vietnam’s intervention in Cambodia preceding the Khmer Rouge regime’s downfall “suggest an insolence” to over 1.6mil victims of the genocide, said Singaporean international human rights lawyer Ravi Madasamy, more commonly known as M Ravi. In the wake of former Thai PM and President of the Privy Council Prem Tinsulanonda’s passing, Mr Lee …

Commuters taking public transport in Singapore will now have the option to tap their Visa contactless cards or compatible mobile devices at MRT stations or buses as a part of the global payment system’s partnership with the Land Transport Authority under the SimplyGo initiative. Covering 30,000 contactless payment acceptance points worldwide, multinational banks such as Bank of China, CIMB, Citibank, …

Self-governing Singapore’s first Cabinet was sworn in at City Hall on 5 June 1959 after the People’s Action Party (PAP) secured 43 of 51 seats in the general election the same year, and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has taken to Facebook to commemorate its 60th anniversary. In a post on Thu (6 Jun), Mr Lee recalled the tumultuous journey …

Cambodia’s Defence Minister Tea Banh and Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) legislator Hun Many have both openly rebutted Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s remarks regarding the “invasion” of Cambodia by the Vietnamese military in its bid to oust the Khmer Rouge regime in 1979. Khmer Times reported General Banh as saying to the media upon arriving at the Phnom Penh International …

There has been no delay in granting Progress Singapore Party (PSP) the necessary permits for its launch, said the police on Mon (3 Jun). TODAY reported the Police as saying in response to media queries that the authorities had also been actively engaging PSP regarding the permits prior to the proposed date of the launch “with the intention of facilitating …

Only a couple of days after the Teck Ghee Square hawker centre was reopened following a two-month renovation, a photograph depicting a 70-year-old man sitting on the ground after falling from a chair made its rounds online on Sun (2 Jun). Blood can be seen next to the elderly man as a result of the head injuries he had sustained, …