JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Eight convicted drug smugglers, including seven foreigners, will be transferred to an Indonesian prison island this week for imminent execution despite international appeals for clemency, an official said Monday. Among the eight are Andrew Chan, 31,…
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SINGAPORE – About 1kg of cannabis was seized by immigration officials, and a suspected smuggler arrested at the Woodlands checkpoint on Saturday, Nov 22. A routine check on a Malaysia-registered car had turned up a block of the suspected cannabis…
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SINGAPORE: More than S$200,000 worth of drugs – 1.9kg of heroin, 1kg of cannabis and 198g of Ice – were seized by the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) in two separate operations on Wednesday (Nov 5). CNB said on Thursday that…
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Muhammad Kadar, who has been on death row for five years for knifing an elderly housewife more than 110 times in 2005, did not get to escape the gallows on Sept 29. The decision by the Court of Appeal to…
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SINGAPORE: A 27-year-old Malaysian who had earlier been found guilty of bringing into Singapore 22.24g of diamorphine, the pure form of heroin, was on Monday (Sep 22) sentenced to death. Prabagaran a/l Srivijayan was arrested in the early morning of…
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