Law & Order

Photographs of a book by the Media Literacy Council (MLC) listing satire as fake news were posted by user ongcs on discussion website Reddit on Tue (17 Sep). The book, they explained, was given to Primary One students in their son’s school. “A book about fake news that my P1 boy received from school today,” ongcs wrote in the title …

The Online Citizen‘s editor-in-chief Terry Xu has filed a memorandum of appearance with the High Court today afternoon (10 Sep) at 2:46 pm, in response to the writ of summons and statement of claim filed by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong against him last week. This means that Mr Xu will contest the defamation suit filed by Mr Lee. Mr …

Three days after posting an infographic listing satire as one of the forms in which fake news can be propagated, the Media Literacy Council (MLC) received further backlash for its apology, in which the Council assured that it did not intend to give “the wrong impression” that satire was fake news. MLC said in a Facebook post on Sun (8 …

Following the refusal to take down an article published on TOC titled “PM Lee’s wife, Ho Ching weirdly shares article on cutting ties with family members” and issue an apology for the post, a writ of summons was served by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong to The Online Citizen‘s editor in chief Terry Xu on Thu (5 Sep) at the …

Four men were arrested and 1,390 cartons of duty-unpaid cigarettes were seized during an operation in an industrial building in Tuas Bay Close earlier on 27 August 2019. Singapore Customs revealed in a press release on Tuesday (3 September) that its officers had noticed a Malaysia-registered tipper truck parked in a warehouse unit during the operation, which was suspected to …

Sri Lanka will request the extradition of an ex-central bank chief in relation to a $74 million insider trading scam, the attorney-general said Monday, months after Colombo accused Singapore of sheltering him. Arjuna Mahendran, a Singapore national of Sri Lankan origin, was accused in 2015 of passing sensitive information to his bond-dealer son-in-law to make millions in undue profits. “Documents …

A total of 5,599 cartons and 9 packets of assorted duty-unpaid cigarettes were discovered hidden in boxes and concealed in the cargo of fibre sponge mattresses at Tuas Checkpoint on 29 August 2019 at about 5.45 am. Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) releasing details of the case, stated that its officers, in collaboration with Singapore Customs, had stopped an arriving …

On the heels of the spike in scam-related crimes over the first half of this year, the Singapore Police Force has teamed up with three major banks in the Republic to curb the proliferation of scam operations. The Straits Times reported today (30 Aug) that the Police Force’s Anti-Scam Centre, which serves to disrupt the transfer of money in suspected …

The rise in scam-related cases contributed largely to the increased crime rate in Singapore in the first half of this year, according to Police. Police revealed on Fri (30 Aug) that the overall crime rate rose by 7 per cent in the first half of 2019 from the same period last year, namely from 15,649 cases in 2018 to 16,745 …

by M. Jegathesan Malaysia’s ex-prime minister Najib Razak played a pivotal role in plundering state fund 1MDB and hundreds of millions of dollars were illicitly channelled to his bank account, a prosecutor said Wednesday at the opening of his biggest graft trial. Claims that Najib and his cronies pilfered massive sums from the fund and spent it on everything from …