Singapore to introduce caning for scammers

Singapore plans to punish online scammers with at least six strokes with a cane, a minister told lawmakers yesterday, as the city-state doubles down on syndicates following record-high scam losses.

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Southeast Asia’s second-largest economy lost more than $2.8 billion through scams from 2020 up to the first half of this year, Sim Ann, Singapore’s senior minister of state for home affairs, told parliam