by Nicolas ASFOURI / Ayaka MCGILL Dozens of pro-democracy protesters stood firm within a besieged Hong Kong university on Wednesday, where an “SOS” sign was laid out as supporters took up calls to distract police surrounding the campus by disrupting city transport. The four-day standoff between demonstrators and police at Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) rippled overseas, with the UN’s …

by Teo Soh Lung According to the Ministry of Home Affairs press release of 23 October 2019, three domestic workers who were arrested sometime in August 2019 and subsequently issued with detention orders under the Internal Security Act (ISA) were charged for offences under the Terrorism (Suppression of Financing) Act (TSFA). It was not the first time that foreign workers …

Four Singaporean men were sentenced by the State Courts in October 2019 to between 33 months’ and 105 days’ and 45 months’ imprisonment, and fined between $8 million and $34 million, for dealing with duty-unpaid cigarettes. Singapore Customs (SC) announced in a press release on Thursday (31 October) that the four men are Kamaruddin bin Abdul Latiff, 51 years old; …

More than 3,000 cartons of duty-unpaid cigarettes concealed in an arriving Malaysia-registered prime mover and bus at Tuas Checkpoint were uncovered within a span of three days, on 12 and 14 October 2019. Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) stated in a press release on Wednesday (16 October) that in the first case detected on 12 October at about 9.50 am, a …

Two male suspected drug offenders, aged 24 and 25, were arrested for being in possession of a firearm and consorting with a person carrying arms respectively in a joint operation mounted by the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) and the Singapore Police Force (SPF) on 8 and 9 October 2019. In a press release on Wednesday (9 October), the bureau stated …

The Singapore Food Agency (SFA) has called for the recall of King Arthur Flour Unbleached All-Purpose Flour due to the potential presence of E. coli O26. According to SFA, the United States of America Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) had published an alert on the recall of the product and as there is an import of the implicated product into …

Sin Eng Cleaning Services Pte Ltd was fined $190,000 on Tuesday (24 September) under section 12(1) of the Workplace Safety and Health Act (WSHA) for failing to take adequate safety measures to ensure the safety of an employee who was performing tree cutting work. In a press release on Wednesday, the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) stated that in early August …

Free disposal and early disposal incentives of $100 per registered e-scooter will be made available to encourage Personal Mobility Device (PMD) owners to dispose of their non-UL2272 devices early. In a press release on Friday (20 September), the Land Transport Authority (LTA) stated that the government announced in August 2019 that the deadline for PMDs to comply with the UL2272 …

An assortment of drugs estimated to be worth S$78,000 was seized and five suspected drug offenders arrested, including a young suspected drug trafficker dealing in a large amount of cannabis in two separate operations conducted by the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) on 19 September 2019. According to the bureau, CNB officers deployed in the vicinity of Woodlands Avenue 6 spotted …

Officers of Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) at Changi Airfreight Centre intercepted a consignment of 31 parcels containing 27 sets of electronic vaporisers (e-vaporisers) and 400 pieces of related accessories, which are prohibited in Singapore, on 9 September 2019 at about 1 pm. In a joint press release on Wednesday (18 September), ICA and Health Sciences Authority (HSA) revealed that …