Category: Legal Judicial

SINGAPORE — Britain and four Asian members of the Commonwealth have announced efforts to expand and re-energize the Five Powers Defense Arrangements (FPDA), a 51-year-old series of mutual assistance agreements embracing the U.K, Malaysia, Singapore, Ne…

SYDNEY — Australia Defense Minister Richard Marles says Australia will continue to exercise its right of passage through the South China Sea despite opposition from China.The South China Sea is one of the world’s most disputed regions.Most of it is cla…

The Police are appealing for information on the whereabouts of 56-year-old Mr James Philip Gilbert, who was last seen in the vicinity of Block 188C Rivervale Drive on 12 June 2022.Source: Singapore Police Force

The Police are appealing for information on the whereabouts of 62-year-old Mr Selamat Bin Arsid. He was last seen in the vicinity of 69 Boon Keng Road on 10 May 2022 at about 10am.Anyone with information is requested to call the Police Hotline at 1800-…

SINGAPORE, The 19th Shangri-La Dialogue, hosted by International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), opened here last night, after a two-year COVID-19 pandemic hiatus.Leading the Chinese delegation to the dialogue, Chinese State Councillor and Mini…

On 25 April 2022, a 26-year-old Singaporean, Zechariah Wong An Yi (“Wong”), a former bank teller of Overseas-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited (“OCBC”), was convicted and sentenced to 26 weeks’ imprisonment for the offence of criminal breach of trust…

Faced with a grave financial crisis, Sri Lanka sought urgent assistance from China amounting to $2.5 billion. Chinese authorities responded Friday, weeks after Sri Lanka made the request for financial support, saying it would extend $31 million in “urg…

The Police have arrested nine men, aged between 30 and 42, for their suspected involvement in the theft of scrap metals from a moving barge at sea.On 19 April 2022 at about 10.30pm, the Police Coast Guard (PCG) detected one suspicious sampan alongside …