A Mararaba Upper Area Court in Nasarawa State yesterday ordered that a 21-year-old phone repairer, Michael Adeku, be given 22 strokes of the cane for stealing four litres of palm oil. Adeku, a ...

KOTA KINABALU: The Sessions Court here sentenced a man to 16 years in jail on Saturday (Sept 28) for raping his own daughter. Sessions Judge Amir Shah Amir Hassan also ordered the 36-year-old labourer ...

ALOR SETAR, Sept 11 (Bernama) -- The mandatory death penalty imposed on a Pakistani man after he was found guilty of murdering a doctor 13 years ago was commuted to 36 years in prison and 12 strokes ...

SINGAPORE (AP) — Singapore sentenced a Swiss man to three strokes of a cane and five months in prison today for spray-painting a subway car, reinforcing the city-state’s reputation for severely ...

A 46-year-old Indian national and Singapore permanent resident on Monday was sentenced to four years in jail and six strokes of the cane for molesting a woman in a nursing room at a shopping mall. The ...