Yishun triple murders

The Yishun triple murders case was a series of three violent murders of three women in a rented flat in Yishun, Singapore in 2008. The suspect, Wang Zhijian, was the boyfriend of one of the two adult women living in the flat, and Wang, together with the victims, were from Mainland China. Wang was alleged to have murdered both his girlfriend and her child, and tried to kill the other two tenants - also a mother-daughter pair - who lived in the next room. The daughter survived the attack but her mother was killed.

2016 Standard Chartered bank robbery

The 2016 Standard Chartered bank robbery was a bank robbery that took place in Singapore on 7 July 2016. Bank robberies are rare in Singapore, with the last successful robbery occurring in 2004. A total of S$30,045 was robbed, and the perpetrator, David

Murders of Tay Chow Lyang and Tony Tan Poh Chuan

On 15 September 2003, two Singaporean students and flatmates Tay Chow Lyang (郑潮亮) and Tony Tan Poh Chuan (陈宝川), were found brutally murdered in their flat in Sydney. The boys' fellow classmate and friend Ram Puneet Tiwary, also a Singaporean

List of major crimes in Singapore (before 2000)

The following is a list of major crimes in Singapore that happened before 2000. They are arranged in chronological order

Sources of Singapore law

There are three general sources of Singapore law: legislation, judicial precedents, and custom

Mathavakannan Kalimuthu

Mathavakannan Kalimuthu is an Indian Singaporean who, together with his two friends, murdered a gangster named Saravanan Michael Ramalingam on 26 May 1996. Mathavakannan, who was arrested on 4 July 1996, was tried and convicted of murder by the High Court

Sim Ah Cheoh

Sim Ah Cheoh was a Singaporean drug trafficker of Chinese descent. She was originally sentenced to death in 1988 for the crime, for which she was arrested in 1985, and Sim's two accomplices Lim Joo Yin and Ronald Tan Chong Ngee were also arrested and

Tan Chor Jin

Tan Chor Jin, alias Tony Kia, was a Singaporean gang leader known for fatally shooting 41-year-old Lim Hock Soon, his former friend and nightclub owner, using a semi-automatic Beretta 0.22 calibre pistol on 15 February 2006. Tan, who had underworld

Datchinamurthy Kataiah

Datchinamurthy a/l Kataiah is an Indian Malaysian who was sentenced to death in Singapore for drug trafficking. Datchinamurthy was found guilty of trafficking nearly 45g of heroin across the Woodlands Checkpoint from Malaysia to Singapore in January 2011

Hri Kumar Nair

Hri Kumar Nair is a Singaporean lawyer and former politician. He was the Deputy Attorney-General of the Republic of Singapore. From 2006 to 2015, he was a Member of Parliament and a member of the People's Action Party. Nair retired from politics after his

France Bleu Pays de Savoie

France Bleu Pays de Savoie, sometimes referred to as France Bleu Savoie, is a generalist radio station based in Chambéry. The radio station serves the departments of Savoie and Haute-Savoie, though it can also be received as far as Geneva, Lyon, and in