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
- SEPTEMBER 24, 2004SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
A 24-year-old Indonesian maid, set to hang in Singapore...
A 24-year-old Indonesian maid, set to hang in Singapore on charges of stabbing dead her employer, won a reprieve when a court reduced her sentence to life in prison because she had been abused
- SEPTEMBER 21, 2004SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Harith Gary Lee, a man convicted of pushing his girlfriend...
Harith Gary Lee, a man convicted of pushing his girlfriend from the 10th floor of a block of flats in Choa Chu Kang, Singapore, lost his appeal against being hanged
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2004SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Chew Seow Leng, a drug addict who refused to give evidence...
Chew Seow Leng, a drug addict who refused to give evidence in his defence, was sentenced to hang in Singapore for heroin trafficking
- JULY 26, 2004SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Australian national Nguyen Tuong Van made a brief appearance...
Australian national Nguyen Tuong Van made a brief appearance in a Singapore court as his lawyer appealed against a mandatory death sentence handed to him for trafficking in heroin
- JULY 26, 2004SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
a man named Raman Selvam Renganathan was hanged in Singapore for drug-related crime
a man named Raman Selvam Renganathan was hanged in Singapore for drug-related crime
- JUNE 27, 2004SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
It was reported that the Indonesian Embassy in Singapore...
It was reported that the Indonesian Embassy in Singapore would strive to save Sundarti Supriyanto, a 23 year old Indonesian female worker from Central Java who was due to face execution on July 6 in Singapore
- JUNE 11, 2004SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Tan Chee Wee, a 30 year old Malaysian who bludgeoned...
Tan Chee Wee, a 30 year old Malaysian who bludgeoned his friend's wife to death in 2003 was hanged in Changi Prison in Singapore
- MAY 21, 2004SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
a man named Soosainathan Dass Saminathan was hanged in Singapore for murder
a man named Soosainathan Dass Saminathan was hanged in Singapore for murder
- APRIL 16, 2004SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
Harith Gary Lee alias Lee Cheng Thiam was sentenced...
Harith Gary Lee alias Lee Cheng Thiam was sentenced to death for murdering his girlfriend, Diana Teo Siew Peng, 32
- APRIL 12, 2004SingaporeDEATH 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.
- MARCH 24, 2004SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
The following is an editorial entitled " Singapore's...
The following is an editorial entitled " Singapore's Grim Parade Of Death" published in the Australian pubilcation 'The Age'
- MARCH 23, 2004SingaporeDEATH PENALTY
The Australian Coalition Against the Death Penalty...
The Australian Coalition Against the Death Penalty (ACADP) received hundreds of messages from Australians offering support for Nguyen Tuong Van, 23, a Melbourne man sentenced to death in Singapore after being found guilty of smuggling almost 400 grams of