Chin Fong Yi pleaded guilty to 12 charges of corruptly obtaining bribes and using criminal proceeds to buy items.

The government had previously moved resources from some construction projects towards funding Singapore's Covid-19 response, causing delays to public infrastructure projects such as BTO and HDB flats.

The Public Accounts Committee has asked individual agencies to address causes of their lapses and detail the follow-up actions taken. 

A stronger Singapore dollar will help the most with food and energy prices, which have been on the rise.

General practitioner Jipson Quah has had his cheating charge amended to a more serious offence - dishonestly making a false representation to the ministry which carries a fine and jail term of up to 20 years if convicted.

The recent spate of phishing scams targeting bank customers has got some people asking why they are not covered when there is insurance for banks.

The metaverse is neither new nor lawless. As technology evolves, the challenge is to understand how law can work in different layers to regulate different aspects of an online experience.

Law Society president Adrian Tan said it came as no surprise to him that junior lawyers were highly sought after, as law firms are a good training ground.

There is no time limit in Singapore for the prosecuting authorities to bring criminal charges against an accused person.

MAS had reiterated its warning that the trading of cryptocurrencies "is highly risky and not suitable for the general public".

The Court of Appeal dismissed his bid, calling it "a waste of time and resources" and an abuse of the court process as its earlier decision was final.

Fullerton Health appears to be running out of options to remedy its mounting liquidity woes.

An inspection by MAS found that Vistra Trust had committed serious breaches of AML/CFT requirements for trust companies.

The latest measures from the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the Association of Banks in Singapore came as OCBC on Wednesday offered "full goodwill payouts" to all customers who lost money in the recent scam.

The complaint alleges that Ms Kwa Kim Li had failed to follow Mr Lee Kuan Yew's instructions to destroy his superseded wills.

The promotion of crypto services by companies and influencers has already led to rebuke from authorities - and in some cases, lawsuits - in other jurisdictions. Several countries have also moved to rein in crypto promotions.

Charles Yeo was handed six charges in total for purported acts carried out between November 2020 and February last year.

In December last year, nearly 470 OCBC customers lost at least $8.5 million in SMS phishing scams.

The renaming should be for the future, when the social status and expectations of men and women have indeed become equal, says Ms Sun Xueling.

Nature Society (Singapore) admitted that it did not develop and implement any data protection policy prior to the incident.

OCBC will conduct a thorough probe to identify the deficiencies in its processes and implement the necessary remedial measures. MAS will consider "appropriate supervisory actions" following this review.

The guidelines set out MAS' expectations in relation to the promotion of the trading of digital payment tokens services to the public.

The new GST rate of 9 per cent is most likely to come into effect around July, according to most analysts.

The shift towards flexible, remote, gig or freelance work raises questions on matters related to compensation, taxes and CPF contributions.

Unreasonable work hours, toxic environments are push factors; many are drawn by better prospects in up-and-coming sectors that let them develop new skill sets.

The GST increase from 7 per cent to 9 per cent was first announced in 2018, and is meant to help Singapore deal with rising recurrent spending needs.

Divorce by mutual agreement will be introduced as a fact cited to prove that the marriage has broken down irretrievably.

Those pushing for digitalisation have duty to provide for adequate redress when banks fail to do so.

Ng Yu Zhi currently faces 75 criminal charges.

A charge can be withdrawn at any time before the accused is convicted, which means found guilty by a court. This is sometimes known as the charge being dropped. It means that the prosecution stops.

The police said investigations are ongoing against Whitefield Law Corporation, where Mr Charles Yeo works as a lawyer, following police reports filed against the firm.

Rising SMS-related banking scams continue to expose a damaging weakness in Singapore's cybersecurity infrastructure.

A 34-year-old man was yesterday charged in a district court with attempting to bribe a nurse to falsely record that he had received his second dose of Covid-19 vaccination.

As the listing of SPACs or special purpose acquisition companies in Singapore is impending, the frontline market regulator has urged audit committees of these companies to carefully determine the accounting treatment and presentation.

Lawyers and clients in certain cases can now come to an arrangement where the clients do not have to pay legal fees if they do not win the case.

Businesses looking to register their IP assets will soon find the process more streamlined and efficient, after Parliament approved changes to IP laws yesterday to encourage greater use of such intangible assets by companies here.

Singapore's crypto players can expect greater regulatory scrutiny this year, but with that should also come more clarity on the space that exchanges and investors can participate in. 

A 38-year-old businessman was convicted of cheating the IRAS of over $11.7 million through a scheme in which he created over 200 shell companies to apply for grants from the taxman.

From March 2020 to last month, the police received 57 reports involving the abuse of or fraudulent applications for Covid-19 government grants and payouts amounting to some $1.7 million.

Leader of the House Indranee Rajah issued a stern reminder to MPs yesterday after Progress Singapore Party Non-Constituency MP Leong Mun Wai failed to substantiate his earlier allegations about vaccination-differentiated measures in schools.

The Minister for Home Affairs has been empowered to make regulations to redact or withhold inmates' correspondence if its contents are deemed to affect the security or order within a prison.

Young people in Singapore no longer see smoking as glamorous and are aware of its harm, but they are attracted to e-cigarettes that they are able to obtain although these are banned here, said Senior Minister of State for Health.

An online dispute resolution service is expected to be launched by the Singapore Mediation Centre towards the end of this quarter, which can reduce the cost of resolving lower value cases.

A team led by two Supreme Court judges will look into developing a world-class programme for the Singapore Judicial College to train judges.

Changes to the Women's Charter to allow couples to divorce without citing faults like adultery will not lead to quick and easy divorces, said Minister of State for Social and Family Development Sun Xueling.

The courts will now have powers to better enforce child access orders, particularly in cases where parents with care and control of children deny their former spouses access to the children.

A record number of lawyers left the profession last year, with the number of departures an "alarming year-on-year increase of around 30 per cent", said Law Society president Adrian Tan.

ST reporters summarise five key issues that are likely to come up, and why they matter.

NTUC Income's proposed corporatisation, announced last week, is a startling development for a co-operative which hews closely to its social purpose of catering to the underserved in Singapore.

Three months after another car rear-ended his vehicle in Toh Yi Drive, Mr Lim Gee Wee, 44, still has not had the dented boot fixed.

More people who used their CPF monies to pay their housing loans were unable to fully refund the amount after selling their properties in 2020, compared with the previous two years.

President Halimah Yacob officiated the swearing-in and appointment of judges at the Istana yesterday.

In a move that could shake up Singapore's insurance industry, NTUC Income, the second-largest health insurer here, will switch from being a cooperative to a company governed by the Companies Act.

There has been a leak of the personal data of OG's customers - including their names, mobile numbers and dates of birth - said the retailer yesterday.

The MOH has lodged a police report against anti-vaccine group Healing The Divide, whose founder urged parents to disrupt operations at paediatric vaccination centres.

In a bid to ease her financial woes, a supervisor in a bank reached out to what she thought was a legitimate moneylender to borrow $25,000, when it was, in fact, a front for scammers.

A vice-president at UOB who was entrusted with nearly $5 million in cash by a customer between 2004 and 2014 misappropriated it and passed the bulk of the amount to a woman.

She was given a second chance to continue working as a dental assistant after her employer caught her embezzling money, but she continued to steal from the clinic's earnings.

An overseas online trading platform, Samtrade FX, is being probed by the Singapore authorities for potential offences under local securities laws that require a capital markets services (CMS) licence for regulated activity.

On Dec 20, 2021, the OECD released model rules to guide governments around the world with the implementation of a reform to the international tax system. 

Despite Omicron cases rising, analysts see the outlook for Singapore stock market shining bright as they are sanguine about the reopening of the economy.

A man who allegedly drove up to a medical centre near Paya Lebar Air Base and claimed he had explosives in his vehicle had 11 more charges slapped on him yesterday.

The battle for IPOs is intensifying in Asia, where stock exchanges have either overhauled their rulebooks or are in the process of doing so to attract the next wave of new economy companies from South-east Asia and India.

Market movements are unexpected yet surprisingly rational in hindsight. What nobody expects now - and hence is likeliest - is 2 or 3 more great bull market years.

Enforcement agencies said they are looking into blatant breaches of safe management rules at a gathering of revellers on New Year's Eve in Clarke Quay.