Singapore
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- parliamentary republic
- CONSTITUTION
- June 3, 1959, amended in 1965
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- based on English common law
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- unicameral, Parliament
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Supreme Court, the head appointed by the president on the advice of the prime minister, other judges appointed by the president on the recommendation of the chief justice
RELIGIONS
42.5% Buddhists, 14.9% Muslims, 8.5% Taoists, 4.8% Catholics, other
From the country
MARCH 5, 2012SingaporeDEATH PENALTYSINGAPORE: TRAFFICKER ON DEATH ROW ESCAPES GALLOWS
In Singapore, the fate of a drug trafficker who was on death row has taken a second
- FEBRUARY 14, 2012IndiaDEATH PENALTY
an Indian construction worker was sentenced to death in Singapore
an Indian construction worker was sentenced to death in Singapore
- JANUARY 1, 2012SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Capital crimes are: murder, treason, offences against the President, illegal possession of arms, kidnapping and causing an innocent person to be executed by bearing false witness.
Capital crimes are: murder, treason, offences against the President, illegal possession of arms, kidnapping and causing an innocent person to be executed by bearing false witness.
- DECEMBER 1, 2011SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
SINGAPORE: MAN ON DEATH ROW TO GET RETRIAL
Thong Ah Fat, 32, is to be re-tried, after judges Chao Hick Tin, Andrew Phang and V.K. Rajah...
NOVEMBER 18, 2011MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA: SINGAPOREAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR STEPSON'S MURDER
A Singaporean was sentenced to death by the High Court in Malaysia after he was found guilty
- OCTOBER 18, 2011MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
MALAYSIA: THREE SENT TO GALLOWS FOR TRAFFICKING DRUGS
Malaysian national Ong Kok Soo, 60, and Singaporeans Lau Ching Hong...
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2011MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
MALAYSIA: SINGAPOREAN GETS CHANCE TO OVERTURN DEATH SENTENCE
Singaporean woman Noor Atiqah M. Lasim, 26, who was sentenced to death in 2011 for drug trafficking in Malaysia, was successful before the Court of Appeal in her application to introduce fresh evidence to overturn her conviction.
- SEPTEMBER 20, 2011ChinaDEATH PENALTY
SINGAPORE: CHINESE NATIONAL GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR CABBY MURDER
in Singapore, High Court Justice Lee Seiu Kin sentenced odd-job labourer and Chinese national Wang Wenfeng, 32, to death for murdering taxi driver Yuen Swee Hong, 58, in an attempted robbery in Sembawang on April 11, 2009.
- JULY 28, 2011MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
SINGAPORE: MP APPEALS FOR FAIR TRIAL FOR VUI KEONG
Malaysian Member of parliament Datuk Chua Soon Bui submitted a memorandum of appeal on Yong Vui Kong to Datuk Husein Hanif, Malaysia's Ambassador to the United Nations.
JULY 27, 2011MalaysiaDEATH PENALTYMALAYSIA: SINGAPOREAN GETS DEATH FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
a 58-year-old Singaporean man was sentenced to death by the High Court in Malaysia for drug
- JULY 7, 2011MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
SINGAPORE: YONG VUI KONG PETITIONS PRESIDENT S R NATHAN FOR CLEMENCY
lawyers representing Malaysian national Yong Vui Kong, who was given a mandatory death sentence in Singapore, filed a petition for a presidential pardon.
- MAY 24, 2011MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
SINGAPORE: MALAYSIAN MAN ESCAPES GALLOWS
in Singapore, Chief Justice Chan Sek Keong and Justices Phang and Rajah of the Court of Appeal allowed Malaysian national Galing Kujat's appeal against his death sentence for bludgeoning Chinese national Cao Ruyin, 40...