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
- MAY 11, 2011SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
SINGAPORE: MAN ESCAPES DEATH SENTENCE
in Singapore, former bus driver Ong Pang Siew, 48, successfully appealed his November 2010 death sentence.
- MAY 6, 2011SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Singapore was reviewed under the Universal Periodic Review of the UN Human Rights Council.
Singapore was reviewed under the Universal Periodic Review of the UN Human Rights Council.
- APRIL 29, 2011MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
SINGAPORE: WOMAN TO HANG FOR TRAFFICKING DRUGS
Malaysian woman Roshamima Roslan, 24, was sentenced to death by Justice Steven Chong of the High Court in Singapore for trafficking 21.48g of heroin in her car at Woodlands on May 6, 2009.
- APRIL 22, 2011SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
SINGAPORE: MAN SENTENCED TO HANG FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
the High Court in Singapore sentenced Foong Chee Peng...
- APRIL 15, 2011MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
SINGAPORE: COURT ALLOWS APPEAL
Justices Chao Hick Tin, Andrew Phang and V. K. Rajah of the Singaporean Court of Appeal allowed Malaysian national Khor Soon Lee's appeal against his death sentence for drug trafficking because he did not know heroin was among the drugs he carried.
- APRIL 15, 2011MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
SINGAPORE: MALAYSIAN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN SINGAPORE
in Singapore, Justice Chan Seng Onn sentenced Malaysian national Dinesh Pillai Reja Retnam...
- APRIL 12, 2011SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
SINGAPORE: MAN ESCAPES GALLOWS
seafood-stall boss Eu Lim Hoklai, 57, escaped the gallows when Justice V. K. Rajah of the Singaporean Court of Appeal overturned his mandatory death sentence.
- APRIL 5, 2011MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
MALAYSIAN MAN FACES IMMINENT EXECUTION IN SINGAPORE AFTER APPEAL FAILS
Amnesty International urged Singapore’s president to grant clemency to Malaysian man Yong Vui Kong, 23.
- APRIL 4, 2011MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
SINGAPORE: MAN LOSES APPEAL AGAINST DEATH SENTENCE
Chief Justice Chan Sek Keong of the Singaporean Court of Appeal dismissed the final appeal of Malaysian Yong Vui Yong, 23.
- MARCH 18, 2011MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
MALAYSIA: DEATH FOR SINGAPOREAN SINGLE MOTHER FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
Judge Noor Azian Shaari of the Shah Alam High Court in Malaysia sentenced legal assistant and single mother Noor Atiqah M. Lasim, 27, of Singapore, to death for trafficking 342.1gs of heroin and 30.3gs of monoacethyl morphine in a bag at the Low Cost Carr
- JANUARY 15, 2011MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
SINGAPORE: NEW HOPE FOR SENTENCED MALAYSIAN
Malaysian national Vui Kong, sentenced to death in Singapore in December 2009 for trafficking 47.27 grams of heroin, won a reprieve when the Court of Appeal reserved judgment.
- JANUARY 1, 2011SingaporeDEATH 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.