Six men arrested for buying contraband cigarettes from online peddlers
SINGAPORE – He thought he was doing his colleagues a favour by consolidating orders and fulfilling them – except that the orders were for contraband cigarettes. He was among six men – five Chinese nationals and one Malaysian aged between 32 and 43 – arrested in an enforcement operation by Singapore Customs on Tuesday (April 13)... » read more
80% plunge in arrivals and departures here last year
More than 42 million travellers were cleared for entry and departure at Singapore’s checkpoints last year, a plunge of over 80 per cent from the year before, while the low-value goods that came in doubled in volume to over 21 million pieces. The Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) said yesterday that the volume of arrivals... » read more