Singapore’s government has announced that scammers will face mandatory caning of up to 24 strokes starting December 30.

Singapore, notorious for its strict laws, including a ban on spitting in public and selling chewing gum, may punish convicted fraudsters with caning, according to statements from lawmakers reported by ...

This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team based upon its relevance and interest to our community. Singaporeans lost an average of $4031 each to scams in 2023, ...

Singapore’s government will consider caning as punishment for some scam-related offenses, Minister of State for Home Affairs Sun Xueling said during a parliamentary debate Tuesday. The Southeast Asian ...

The move is the government’s latest attempt to combat a spike in financial fraud that has cost Singaporeans around $2.8 billion since 2020. Singapore this week passed a law allowing for the caning of ...

As Singapore’s ambassador to the U.S., I would like to clarify some misperceptions conveyed in Jon Pelson’s Feb. 6 op-ed “Lee Kuan Yew’s Cane and Trump’s Tariffs” about the way our country carries out ...

Singapore’s government has announced that scammers will face mandatory caning, a punishment already used for several other offenses.