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An accountant who took upskirt videos of his colleague and other women, including a friend, was jailed for 14 weeks on Tuesday for insulting their modesty. 31 year-old Willy Yeo had admitted to five of 24 charges, most of which were committed on public transport.

I am disappointed with the verdict of Neo Gim Huah, who was jailed 3 weeks for voluntarily causing hurt against 16 year old Amos Yee. This is what Neo Gim Huah said of his actions in Court today:

A part-time tutor who is known as "the Bishan gay" among students in the area was sentenced to 12 months' jail on Friday for molesting a 12-year-old boy in a mall toilet. Cheng Hoe Huat was found guilty after a two-day trial of molesting the student three times in the male toilet of Bishan Junction 8 shopping centre on 13th November 2013.

A bail review for teenage blogger Amos Yee will be heard on Wednesday morning at the High Court. Yee's lawyer Alfred Dodwell told the media that his 16-year-old client will be challenging the conditions of his bail, which do not allow him to post anything online.

34 year-old Yeo Cheng San was desperate for a job after his hair salon folded in 2004. Without anywhere to go, he decided to buy fake degrees in human resource management from the Florida International University over the Internet. He bought a Bachelor's degree, a Master's degree and a Post Graduate Diploma, which cost him over $8,000. He later used these fake degrees to secure jobs with 3 companies, where he used to earnbetween $9,000 and $12,800 a month.

Four years after being sentenced to death, 2 convicted drug traffickers were spared the gallows today. Malaysians 31 year-old Cheong Chun Yin and 60 year-old Pang Siew Fum were sentenced to life imprisonment for trafficking 2.7kg of heroin to Singapore on June 16, 2008. They were convicted in 2010. Cheong was also given 15 strokes of the cane — the minimum prescribed by the Misuse of Drugs Act.

YouTuber Amos Yee will spend at least one night in remand, after his parents refused to post bail for him. Yee, who was charged on Mar 31 after posting a video which contained disparaging remarks against Christians, faced new conditions for bail after his pre-trial conference on Friday (Apr 17). Yee arrived at the State Courts at 3.15pm, 45 minutes before his closed-door meeting. At 5pm, his parents walked out of the State Courts without him.

A 40 year-old Singapore PR, Sheng Jianzhong, formerly a managing director at a construction firm Sheng Yu Construction Builders, was fined S$169,000 for demanding money from foreign workers in exchange for employment. This is the highest fine dished out by the courts since the Employment of Foreign Manpower Act (EFMA) was enhanced in November 2012. Sheng was also sentenced to 3 weeks’ jail for assaulting a Ministry of Manpower (MOM) officer. Sheng was charged with 38 counts of receiving kickbacks from 24 foreign workers, 1 count of obstruction of justice and 1 count of use of criminal force on a civil servant, the MOM said yesterday.

On 7th November 2013, a 27 year-old jobless man, who cannot be named to protect the victim's identity, filmed himself having sex with an underage girl. He later threatened the girl that he would upload the clips onto the Internet if she did not allow him to.

India's western state of Maharashtra has introduced a ban on beef so strict that even possession could land you in jail for five years, media reports and the chief minister said Tuesday. The country's Hindu majority considers cows sacred, and several states already ban their slaughter.