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Singapore's Dos and Don'ts To Help You Navigate The City Like A Pro
Singapore Travel Tips: It is important to become familiar with Singaporean customs and laws in order to successfully adapt to the area.
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"Be Psychologically Prepared For Terror Attack": Singapore Minister Warns People
Singapore's Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam on Tuesday warned people to psychologically prepare themselves for a potential terror incident as authorities have caught more radicalised individuals in the city-state.
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Indian Origin Ex-Minister In Singapore Gets 1 Year Jail For Corruption
Singapore's Indian-origin former transport minister S Iswaran was handed a one-year jail sentence on Thursday after he pleaded guilty to five charges relating to corruption and blocking of justice in the High Court on September 24.
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Singapore Passes Law To Hold "Dangerous Offenders" Beyond Jail Terms
Singapore on Monday passed a law to hold "dangerous offenders" indefinitely, even after they complete their jail sentences.
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India Takes Lead In Setting Up A Global Online Platform To Resolve Cross-Border B2C E-Commerce Disputes
India is hosting the first conference in the national capital on Friday to deliberate on the framework of this ODR.
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Case Against Indian-Origin Singapore Lawyer For Slapping Woman In Temple: Report
An Indian-origin lawyer, who has already been suspended from practising in connection with some other case, has been charged for four different offences under law by the State Courts for allegedly slapping a woman on her cheek at
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EU Lobbies Asian Countries to Regulate AI Tech Firms, Said to Get Lukewarm Response
The European Union's efforts to lobby governments in Asia — including India, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and the Philippines — to implement stringent rules to rein in and regulate AI technology firms are being met with a lukewarm response. The bloc wants its proposed AI Act to become a global benchmark for regulating AI, like its GDPR laws, ...
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India’s ZebPay Exchange Partners With Singapore’s Taxnodes to Simplify Crypto Tax Filings
ZebPay has signed a deal with Singapore-based Taxnodes that will help its customers with their crypto taxes. Time and again, industry experts have urged India’s crypto community to exercise compliance with the laws in order to make the crypto sector safer.
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WazirX Ties Up With Singapore’s TaxNodes to Simplify Crypto Tax Computations, Filings: Details
WazirX has partnered up with TaxNodes to help its users compute their crypto taxes in India and file their taxes on a timely basis. Owing to the confusions surrounding the taxes on crypto gains in India, it is rather alarming that only around 100,000 crypto holders declared their holdings and paid the due tax amount in India last year. Industry pla...
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Hodlnaut Crypto Lender Under Scanner in Singapore, Being Probed for Fraud
The Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) from Singapore is now probing if Hodlnaut has been indulging in cheating and fraudulent activities. As per the law enforcement authorities, between August and November, several reports had claimed that Hodlnaut and its directors had made ‘false representations’ about the lender’s exposure to a particula...
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Optus Data Breach: Australia Plans Tough Data Protection Laws After Cyberattack on Telecoms Firm
Australia has flagged tough new data protection laws after a cyberattack that resulted in the theft of personal data of 9.8 million customers from telecom provider Optus, the second-largest in the country. The government blames lax cybersecurity at Optus, a subsidiary of Singapore Telecommunications, also known as Singtel, for the breach that expos...
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Terra's Do Kwon Claims He's Not on the Run From South Korean Law Enforcement
Do Kwon, the co-founder of the Terra ecosystem, took to Twitter on Saturday asserting he’s “not ‘on the run’ or anything similar” after the Singapore Police Force (SPF) said that Kwon wasn’t in the city-state.
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LGBTQ Singaporeans Welcome Sex Law Repeal, Decry Marriage Exclusion
The Singaporean government plans to decriminalise gay sex but upholds the traditional definition of marriage as being between a man and a woman.
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From Marriage To Death Penalty: LGBT Rights Across The World
Singapore announced on Sunday that it will repeal a law criminalising gay sex but in many other parts of the world homosexuality is illegal and sometimes subject to the death penalty.
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Singapore To Repeal Law Against Gay Sex, No Change In Marriage Rules
Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced Sunday the country will repeal a colonial-era law criminalising gay sex, though he maintained that the government will continue to "uphold" marriage as between a man and a woman.
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Singapore's Dos and Don'ts To Help You Navigate The City Like A Pro
Singapore Travel Tips: It is important to become familiar with Singaporean customs and laws in order to successfully adapt to the area.
-
"Be Psychologically Prepared For Terror Attack": Singapore Minister Warns People
Singapore's Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam on Tuesday warned people to psychologically prepare themselves for a potential terror incident as authorities have caught more radicalised individuals in the city-state.
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Indian Origin Ex-Minister In Singapore Gets 1 Year Jail For Corruption
Singapore's Indian-origin former transport minister S Iswaran was handed a one-year jail sentence on Thursday after he pleaded guilty to five charges relating to corruption and blocking of justice in the High Court on September 24.
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Singapore Passes Law To Hold "Dangerous Offenders" Beyond Jail Terms
Singapore on Monday passed a law to hold "dangerous offenders" indefinitely, even after they complete their jail sentences.
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India Takes Lead In Setting Up A Global Online Platform To Resolve Cross-Border B2C E-Commerce Disputes
India is hosting the first conference in the national capital on Friday to deliberate on the framework of this ODR.
-
Case Against Indian-Origin Singapore Lawyer For Slapping Woman In Temple: Report
An Indian-origin lawyer, who has already been suspended from practising in connection with some other case, has been charged for four different offences under law by the State Courts for allegedly slapping a woman on her cheek at
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EU Lobbies Asian Countries to Regulate AI Tech Firms, Said to Get Lukewarm Response
The European Union's efforts to lobby governments in Asia — including India, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and the Philippines — to implement stringent rules to rein in and regulate AI technology firms are being met with a lukewarm response. The bloc wants its proposed AI Act to become a global benchmark for regulating AI, like its GDPR laws, ...
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India’s ZebPay Exchange Partners With Singapore’s Taxnodes to Simplify Crypto Tax Filings
ZebPay has signed a deal with Singapore-based Taxnodes that will help its customers with their crypto taxes. Time and again, industry experts have urged India’s crypto community to exercise compliance with the laws in order to make the crypto sector safer.
-
WazirX Ties Up With Singapore’s TaxNodes to Simplify Crypto Tax Computations, Filings: Details
WazirX has partnered up with TaxNodes to help its users compute their crypto taxes in India and file their taxes on a timely basis. Owing to the confusions surrounding the taxes on crypto gains in India, it is rather alarming that only around 100,000 crypto holders declared their holdings and paid the due tax amount in India last year. Industry pla...
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Hodlnaut Crypto Lender Under Scanner in Singapore, Being Probed for Fraud
The Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) from Singapore is now probing if Hodlnaut has been indulging in cheating and fraudulent activities. As per the law enforcement authorities, between August and November, several reports had claimed that Hodlnaut and its directors had made ‘false representations’ about the lender’s exposure to a particula...
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Optus Data Breach: Australia Plans Tough Data Protection Laws After Cyberattack on Telecoms Firm
Australia has flagged tough new data protection laws after a cyberattack that resulted in the theft of personal data of 9.8 million customers from telecom provider Optus, the second-largest in the country. The government blames lax cybersecurity at Optus, a subsidiary of Singapore Telecommunications, also known as Singtel, for the breach that expos...
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Terra's Do Kwon Claims He's Not on the Run From South Korean Law Enforcement
Do Kwon, the co-founder of the Terra ecosystem, took to Twitter on Saturday asserting he’s “not ‘on the run’ or anything similar” after the Singapore Police Force (SPF) said that Kwon wasn’t in the city-state.
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LGBTQ Singaporeans Welcome Sex Law Repeal, Decry Marriage Exclusion
The Singaporean government plans to decriminalise gay sex but upholds the traditional definition of marriage as being between a man and a woman.
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From Marriage To Death Penalty: LGBT Rights Across The World
Singapore announced on Sunday that it will repeal a law criminalising gay sex but in many other parts of the world homosexuality is illegal and sometimes subject to the death penalty.
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Singapore To Repeal Law Against Gay Sex, No Change In Marriage Rules
Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced Sunday the country will repeal a colonial-era law criminalising gay sex, though he maintained that the government will continue to "uphold" marriage as between a man and a woman.
