Law & Order

Two unaccounted for after Bangkok blaze: Singapore

SINGAPORE (AFP) - Two Singaporeans were unaccounted for after the fire that killed at least 58 New Year's revellers in Bangkok, the foreign ministry said Friday.

A man speaks on a mobile phone in a file photo. REUTERS/File

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A Singapore man has been banned from owning a camera phone for a year after he was found guilty of secretly filming a woman in an airport toilet, a newspaper reported Tuesday.


Australian accused of pushing Thai wife out of window in Singapore

Singapore - An Australian man was charged in a Singapore court with attempted murder in pushing his Thai wife out of a fourth-floor window, news reports said on Wednesday.

Ex-addict: CNB officer pressured me into having sex

Khushwant Singh The Straits Times 03.05.2008
Ex-addict: CNB officer pressured me into having sex

Waitress alleges she didn't resist advances for fear of problems with her urine sample


Singapore relaxes sex law but not for gays

Singapore on Tuesday legalised oral and anal sex between heterosexual couples but retained a law which criminalises intercourse between gay men. In the city-state's first major penal code amendments in 22 years, parliament repealed a section crimi...