One day in jail for attempt to buy kidney in Singapore
A Singapore tycoon was sentenced to jail for one day for his attempt to illegally buy a kidney on the black market.
From Bloomberg News:
Retail tycoonTang Wee Sung was sentenced to one day in jail and fined S$17,000 ($11,813) by a Singapore court for trying to buy a kidney and lying about it in a case that’s [...]
212 Filipina human trafficking victims in Singapore in 2007
59 human trafficking victims were recorded in 2005.
125 victims were recorded in 2006.
212 recorded in 2007.
Source: Veronica Uy, “Trafficking of Filipinas in Singapore ‘unabated’-embassy,” Inquirer.net, April 28, 2008.
5 percent of all music sales in Singapore were pirated in 2005
Source: International Intellectual Property Alliance, “2006 Special 301 Special Mention: Singapore,” February 13, 2006.
1.6 million packs seized in Singapore in 2007
Source: Julia Ng, “ICA reports 83% jump in smuggling cases at checkpoints in 2007,” Channel News Asia, January 24, 2008,(accessed: January 28, 2008)
1.2 million packs seized in Singapore in 2006
Source: Noor Mohd Aziz, “46% jump in number of cigarette, tobacco smuggling cases in 2006,” Channel News Asia, February 1, 2007,(accessed: February 2, 2007).
360,000 packs seized in Singapore in 2005
Source: Noor Mohd Aziz, “46% jump in number of cigarette, tobacco smuggling cases in 2006,” Channel News Asia, February 1, 2007,(accessed: February 2, 2007).
$3.15 for a smuggled pack of cigarettes in Singapore
Source: AP, ” Singapore crackdown on cigarette smuggling,” Star (Malaysia), August 28, 2006.
Singapore unable to find escaped terrorist for over 2 weeks
The world famous efficient government of Singapore is facing some embarrassment as a wanted terrorist escaped from a detention center and has been on the lose for two weeks.
From the IHT:
Mas Selamat Kastari, alleged to be the leader of a terrorist group here, escaped from a high-security prison two weeks ago in a major embarrassment [...]
