Stories you might've missed, Nov 8
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Stories you might've missed, Nov 8

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Old-school ‘Nigerian Prince’ scam, how S’poreans lost their money and the progression of scams

Singapore – Scams have existed since ancient times, with the first recorded attempt in 300 BC. In the 1990s, it was the Nigerian Prince scam that bamboozled many of their hard-earned money.

The Nigerian Prince scam, also known as 419 scams, works by randomly chosen people receiving snail mail or electronic communication regarding an important public figure, sometimes even a prince, needing to get their wealth or “government funds” out of the country.

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Singapore urged not to hang mentally disabled trafficker

Singapore — Singapore faced calls Friday not to hang a mentally disabled Malaysian man for trafficking a small amount of heroin into the city-state, with campaigners criticising the planned execution as “despicable”.








Nagaenthran K. Dharmalingam was arrested in 2009 for transporting 43 grams — equivalent to about three tablespoons — of the drug into Singapore, and sentenced to death the following year.

Book on censorship banned in Singapore

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Singapore — Singapore has banned a book on censorship over “offensive images” including controversial cartoons of the Muslim Prophet Mohammed, authorities said.




The city-state is majority ethnic Chinese but has a sizeable Muslim minority, and has strict laws to curb hate speech and actions promoting ill-will between religious or racial groups.

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Judicial Review challenge against alleged discriminatory policies on unvaccinated, crowdfunding started

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Singapore — With at least 100,000 unvaccinated Singapore residents affected by the alleged discriminatory policies, a Judicial Review (JR) challenge was initiated, its crowdfunding ongoing to cover legal fees.

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S’pore netizens on daily COVID-19 deaths — There’s nothing to be happy about

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Singapore — In response to the daily Covid-19 situation report in Singapore, members of the public expressed concerns about the number of deaths despite the infection growth rate decreasing.

On Sunday (Nov 7), the Ministry of Health (MOH) reported 2,553 new cases of Covid-19 infection, comprising 2,343 community cases, 205 dormitory resident cases and five imported cases.

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