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Former transport minister S. Iswaran (pic) has been placed under the Home Detention Scheme.
Here's a look at the news highlights from Asean countries in the Star-AseanPlus section for Wednesday (March 12, 2025)
Here's a look at the news highlights from Asean countries in the Star-AseanPlus section for Monday (March 10, 2025).
SINGAPORE: The High Court on Tuesday (Sept 24) will see the first Singapore political office-holder in nearly five decades standing trial.
Here's a look at the news highlights from Asean countries in the Star-AseanPlus section for Thursday (March 6, 2025)
BELGRADE (Reuters) - A Serbian higher court on Wednesday released former minister Goran Vesic, who had been detained last Thursday in connection with the collapse of a railway station roof that killed 15 people and sparked a wave of protests.
Ong, known as a ‘risk taker’ and ‘shrewd businessman’ with a penchant for closing deals, has also had brushes with controversy.
SINGAPORE (Reuters) -A Singapore court on Thursday sentenced a former minister to 12 months in prison for obstructing justice and receiving more than $300,000 worth of gifts, in the first jailing of an ex-cabinet member in a city-state famous for its clean governance.
OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly on Friday announced she would not run in the race to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, saying she wanted to focus on the threat posed by potential U.S. tariffs.
SINGAPORE: Former transport minister S. Iswaran, who faces criminal charges involving more than S$400,000 worth of items, has filed an application to the High Court seeking clarity on the prosecution’s handling of the case against him.
SINGAPORE: Former transport minister S. Iswaran, who faces criminal charges involving more than S$400,000 worth of items, succeeded in his High Court bid for a joint trial of the two sets of charges that he faces, following a full-day hearing.
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore's former Transport Minister S. Iswaran was handed eight more charges in a corruption case on Monday, the anti-graft body said, in one of the city-state's highest-profile corruption scandals.
SINGAPORE: Former transport minister S. Iswaran, who is facing corruption charges, has returned to Singapore following his discharge from a hospital in Melbourne.
Singapore’s first ministerial corruption case expanded Monday with new charges alleging that a former transport minister received bottles of whisky and wine, golf clubs and a luxury Brompton bike from a contractor who had dealings with the government.
BANGKOK: The Constitutional Court has found former transport minister Saksayam Chidchob guilty of concealing his shares and ownership of a construction company that won many projects from his ministry.
SINGAPORE: Former transport minister S. Iswaran has been granted permission to leave Singapore to settle his son into university in Australia, three weeks after he was handed 27 charges, which he pleaded not guilty to.
Here's a look at the news highlights from Asean countries in the Star-AseanPlus section for Wednesday (Feb 19, 2025)
Former Singapore transport minister S. Iswaran was handed eight new charges in court on March 25.
KUALA LUMPUR: Former Penang deputy chief minister Tan Sri Dr Ibrahim Saad passed away at 6.30pm on Friday (Nov 15) at Damansara Specialist Hospital due to respiratory complications.
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's ruling Socialist Party on Monday gave former Transport Minister Jose Luis Abalos 24 hours to step down as a lawmaker after his assistant was arrested on suspicion of taking payments to facilitate contracts for masks during the COVID pandemic.
