On March 19, Singapore hanged 3 men, 2 Malaysians and...

On March 19, Singapore hanged 3 men, 2 Malaysians and a Singaporean, for possession of a small amount of the drug diamorphine and a about 2kg of cannabis. Chou Kooi Pang was executed for delivering 290.4g of diamorphine in Singapore to accomplice Tan Chye Guan. Tan was hanged for possessing the drugs for the purpose of trafficking. Fok Chia Siong was executed for importing more than 1,300g of cannabis from Malaysia in a separate incident. Fok was caught trying to drive across the Causeway linking Singapore and Malaysia with the drugs in 1997. Chou and Fok were Malaysians and Tan was a Singaporean, a Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) official said.