For the first time ever, every Commonwealth nation has their own Baton customised to represent their culture New Delhi: The 2026 Glasgow Commonwealth Games’ King’s Baton Relay was unveiled here on ...

Actor Vedang Raina plays Ankur Anand in Jigra. In this scene, he gets punished with caning in a fictional South-Asian country(Screengrab from YouTube/Dharma ...

Singapore, where spitting in public and selling chewing gum is illegal, has long been known for its strict laws. Now, scammers and recruiters for scam groups face a legal crackdown that allows them to ...

To combat a surge in modern-day online scams, Singapore has turned to a punishment from the past: caning. This week, Singapore’s Parliament amended criminal law in the city-state to introduce caning ...

Singapore this week passed a law allowing for the caning of those involved in scamming, its latest attempt to combat a runaway surge in online fraud of all kinds. Under the measure, which was passed ...

Singapore’s parliament on Tuesday passed a law that introduced caning as a punishment for scammers and money mules, as the country battles a scourge of fraud cases. Under the Criminal Law ...

Ahead of Adobe’s MAX Sneaks event, WIRED got an exclusive look at a new tool that can change the tone and style of a voice-over. Adobe sat me down and played a short demo video with a matter-of-fact, ...

The National Parent-Teacher Associations Consultative Council has supported an MP’s call for the reintroduction of caning in schools, stressing however that its implementation must strictly comply ...

The government has embarked on a comprehensive study into abolishing mandatory caning, marking a potential major shift in the country’s criminal justice system. Minister in the Prime Minister’s ...

An Islamic court in Indonesia's conservative Aceh province on Monday sentenced two men to public caning, 80 times each, after Islamic religious police caught them engaged in what the court deemed were ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia — An Islamic court in Indonesia ’s conservative Aceh province on Monday sentenced two men to public caning, 80 times each, after Islamic religious police caught them engaged in ...

Monday's verdict was the fifth time that Aceh has sentenced people to public caning for homosexuality since strict Islamic law was implemented in the province. An Islamic court in Indonesia's western ...