Civil activist Jolovan Wham has been ordered to pay S$6,063 in costs to the Attorney-General for his failed bid to quash a police warning that had been issued against him. The police warning came after Mr Wham breached rules against…
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A Singaporean couple is on trial for allegedly starving their Filipina domestic helper. She weighed just 29kg when she escaped from their Orchard Road condominium in April 2014. Lim Choon Hong and wife Chong Sui Foon, both 47, face one…
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Thousands of people cross over the Tuas Second Link and Woodlands Causeway to Singapore daily for work or school. Among them is a growing number of Singaporeans who have chosen to move to Malaysia, and still continue to work in…
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An elderly man had a close shave with death when a huge slab of concrete crashed down on his bed just moments after he got up. He suffered a cut and bad bruising when the slab grazed his right upper…
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We thank Mr Leonard Poh for his feedback in “To promote domestic workers’ welfare, share anecdotes, best practices” (March 13). Our study was conducted based on a sample of respondents stratified to reflect the major populations of migrant domestic workers…
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