Singapore, where spitting in public and selling chewing gum is illegal, has long been known for its strict laws.

Singapore reinstates caning as a punishment for online scam offenders amid a rise in scam cases, resulting in significant ...

To combat a surge in online scams, the city-state has turned to caning fraudsters — a form of corporal punishment left over from the British colonial era.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- When 8-year-old Dakota Nafzinger, who is blind, got off the bus Monday, his walking cane had been replaced by a noodle. His mother says it was taken to "humiliate" him after he ...

Singapore is making an unprecedented step towards targeting online scammers, who will now face similar punishments for rape ...

Kansas City boy born with no eyes sent home from school without cane. — -- A school took away an 8-year-old blind boy's cane as punishment for acting up and replaced it with a pool noodle, his ...

Scammers as well as members and recruiters of scam syndicates will be punished with six to 24 strokes of the cane under the ...

Githungo Primary School headteacher Joseph Karume displays the cane that was allegedly used by a teacher corporal punishment on five pupils who were late for afternoon classes. [Mose Sammy, Standard] ...