The 'Marina Sands' Hotel is pretty cool (When we were there it cost $15 to visit the "boat")... 
Posted on 06/07/2017 9:12:08 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Singapore: Twin brothers from India have been jailed for five months and ordered to receive three strokes of the cane for attacking a compatriot at a dormitory in Singapore. Lakshmanan and Raman Pothiyappan, 24, pleaded guilty to one count of causing grievous hurt to their fellow countryman and colleague, Thevvan Velayutham, 41.
The twins were each jailed for five months and ordered to receive three strokes of the cane, The Straits Times reported today.
They committed the offence at a Shaw Road dormitory near Upper Paya Lebar Road on October 29 last year. Deputy Public Prosecutor Soh Weiqi said Thevvan, who is also a construction worker, was sitting in the front porch of the dormitory when the two brothers started punching and kicking him.
Lakshmanan, who had consumed alcohol shortly before the attack, also threw a chair at Thevvan and it struck his head and body.
"Raman had informed that the victim and Lakshmanan were not on good terms, and that he had joined in the assault to support his brother," Ms Soh said. Thevvan later went to Changi General Hospital, where he was found to have injuries, including a broken nose and a fracture near an eye.
Ms Soh told District Judge Samuel Chua that the victim has since fully recovered from his injuries.
She urged the judge to sentence the brothers, who were unrepresented, to at least five months' jail with caning.
Before handing out the sentence yesterday, Judge Chua told the brothers: "The injuries were severe... Such offences will not be tolerated in Singapore."
For causing grievous hurt, each attacker could have been jailed for up to 10 years and fined or caned.
Singapore is probably the safest place in the world to live. Delightful , beautiful place with very strict laws about everything, including spitting on the street.
I am not understanding what happened.
Two younger twins beat-up an older co-worker inside their dormitory. They are going to jail and will be caned.
Caning, made legal here, would reduce crime by 50%! Get caught with a bag of pot or rob a bank, ya just do jail time if you get caught. But caning hurts like hell. The low IQ folks doing these crimes would understand pain vs the nuance of jail time. Singapore gets it right. Caught dealing drugs? You are executed at Changi the followuping Friday.
A lot of Westerners in Singapore who know the place like to show off their superior, post-modern, leftist values by criticizing Singapore’s social policies.
Its also a kind of modern cultural imperialism.
Chinese, Malay and Indian culture’s all exist together in peace in Singapore thanks to what their government does and it how manages the city.
I think the Singaporeans (?) said “You are in our country as guests. You do not respect our ways. U Fokk UP!”
The difference between Singapore and America is not the severity of punishment - but the certainty of it.
Thanks. The grammar is terrible!
Hurts me to hear that lefties are critical of what is essentially a miracle of organization and forethought. Lee Kuan Yew, its first Prime Minister shaped it into the financial powerhouse it is today. Part of his plan was instituting very restrictive laws, with fines for spitting on the street, etc. I saw him in a tv interview decades ago where he explained, “Many of our people were living in trees a generation ago.” So he made sure they got and stayed civilized.
I spent a week there in the late ‘70s. It still had different “quarters,” with Malays, Chinese, etc living in traditional houses....I’m sure that’s all gone now. But still, an ideal place for a vacation.
Well, that and the much greater economic freedom that exists in Singapore!
(From Heritage. Singapore #2. USA #17)
How Singapore Became One of the Richest Places on Earth
(Leader read Milton Freeman's book, Free to Choose, and IMPLEMENTED IT. For example, you can incorporate a new company in Singapore in 3 hours.)
I lived in Asia, and visited Singapore often. I still go there occasionally for work. it was always relaxing to visit there while living in China or SE Asia - a place where things were orderly and everything was not a constant negotiation or reduction of one's expectations.
I do indeed meet the occasional smug western metrosexual who likes to blithely criticize Singapore for its rules on homosexuality, littering, political system, drug policy, etc.... Of course, while living in Singapore at the same time. the same sort of consequence-free SJW's you see in Western universities, government, etc...
In sum, they want to impose the elitist values and lifestyle of New York or London on them.
Probably both...
The 'Marina Sands' Hotel is pretty cool (When we were there it cost $15 to visit the "boat")...
Just lovely.
Spectacular. When I was there, they had nothing even close to this.
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