SINGAPORE – The traffic light was red and a couple were crossing the road — but that did not stop Yue Kim Ming from speeding past them on his power-assisted bicycle. Although he narrowly missed the pair, the 63-year-old welder wrongly thought Mr Chang Yong Peo had hit him and went to confront him. In...Read More

Rochelle Chow Shuting’s lawyers claimed she was trying to pick up her phone with her leg. They later said she was lifting the leg to regain balance. Chow intends to appeal against her conviction and sentence. According to charge sheets, Chow was at the Parkroyal on Pickering hotel when the incident occurred at about 5.30pm...Read More

In need of cash to repay both licensed and unlicensed moneylenders, a jewellery store sales executive stole 20 gold plates worth over $124,000 and $20,000 in cash from his then employer. Jacky Tan Jun Jia, 34, who had a gambling addiction, was employed at Chow Tai Fook Jewellery at Bugis Junction shopping mall when he...Read More

SINGAPORE – A former fish soup stall owner was sentenced to 16 months’ jail on Thursday for using a wooden pole to attack a rival hawker, who sold a similar dish at the same food centre. The victim, Mr Punnataro Wee, 51, suffered fractures on his skull and right wrist, as well as bleeding in...Read More

SINGAPORE – A former domestic helper from India who was sentenced to 10 weeks’ jail in 2023 for making a false statement in a work pass application has been acquitted by the High Court after she appealed against her conviction. Ms Alka, 44, who goes by one name, had contested a charge under the Employment...Read More

SINGAPORE – A man offered his accomplice a reward of between $50,000 and $100,000 to be part of a plan to help Ng Yu Zhi – a businessman allegedly linked to one of Singapore’s largest investment fraud schemes – unlawfully flee the country. Police discovered the plan during a separate investigation into unrelated gambling offences...Read More

SINGAPORE – A former director of Singapore Zam Zam restaurant in North Bridge Road, who masterminded a 2015 attack against a supervisor of rival eatery Victory restaurant next door, was sentenced on Monday (May 11) to six years’ jail and six strokes of the cane. Before sentencing Zackeer Abbass Khan, District Judge Mathew Joseph said...Read More

SINGAPORE, Dec 7 — Failing to stop when the traffic light she was approaching turned amber, a 34-year-old cyclist crashed into a pedestrian at a traffic junction in central Singapore. Jessica Mollie Edgill, a British national, was today fined S$1,500 (RM6,343) and ordered to pay the same amount in compensation to the pedestrian. Edgill pleaded...Read More

SINGAPORE – A Filipina who was drunk and soiled a taxi with vomit was jailed for five weeks on Wednesday (July 19) for hitting the cabby with her shoe. Marie Antonette Buhain Llagas, 41, who was working in sales at the time, was also fined $500 for paying taxi driver Chua Cheng Hwa, 47, only...Read More