SINGAPORE – Twice, she was locked out of her home. At other times, her then boyfriend hit her and spat in her face. The woman finally left the relationship after months of abuse in 2018 upon realising that “the emotional and physical exhaustion was no longer sustainable”. On Tuesday (Oct 5), her abuser was sentenced to... » read more
SINGAPORE- A housewife, unhappy at seeing fingerprints on her kitchen windows, forced her domestic helper to hit her own mouth with a meat pounder about 50 times. Mun Sau Yeng, 41, was sentenced on Tuesday (March 16) to 15 months’ jail. The court heard that Mun ordered her Indonesian helper Yuni Dwi Lestari, now 26,... » read more
When Ham Jia Yun was first asked to play in a varsity inter-hall handball game in 2009, she had no idea what the sport was about and had to be coached by her teammates during the game. She told The Straits Times: “I had only heard about it in junior college but I had never... » read more