Tag Archives: UK

As an outside observer from UK. I was wondering? The tough stance Singapore maintains on the death penalty and the high value it places on it as a deterrent, if this be so, why do many executions go unannounced ?

UK authorities confirmed that at least 19 people were killed and 50 others injured after a suspected suicide bomber explosion at the Manchester Arena after an Ariana Grande concert. They are treating it as a terrorist incident until police known otherwise. Authorities responded to calls for help at around 10.35 pm and several young girls were allegedly among the dead.

Irene Clennel, who was unceremoniously deported back to Singapore despite being married to her British husband for 27 years, has receibved 24,800 pounds worth of crowdfunding to help funding her legal fees to fight her case against the UK government.

A new kind of scam has been affecting phone users throughout the UK, United States and Asia. When victims answer a phone call from an unfamiliar number, a voice will briefly introduce themselves or the company they work for. After that, they will ask, "Can you hear me?"

In Lee Hsien Loong's latest interview with BBC's Stephen Sackur for the programme HARDtalk, Lee was quizzed on Singapore's lack of freedom of expression and freedom of the press. Lee retorted immediately saying that the interviewer Mr Sackur was not restrained at all in asking him any questions, hence proving there is freedom of expression in Singapore.

A Singaporean woman, Irene Clennel, who lived without valid immigration papers with her Scottish husband for 27 years in the UK, has been deported back to Singapore by the UK authorities. Irene had been held in a Scottish detention center since the start of February before being sent back to Singapore on Saturday. She was put into a van and forced into a plane bound for her home country. She did not have access to her lawyers or have the chance to pack any clothes.

A foreign talent of South Asian origin, who lived in Singapore since 2015, has been ordered by the UK court to give up 2 of her children to be placed in foster care in Britain after she failed to scam the UK government of welfare benefits. The UK High Court has decided that the children would be put up for adoption instead of reuniting them with their parents.

A nurse has today been found guilty of murdering two patients and poisoning 20 others over two years while working in an NHS hospital. Victorino Chua, 49, injected deadly levels of insulin into saline bags and ampoules while working on two wards at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport.