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Nagaenthran Dharmalingam Straits Times

Singapore Press Holdings now owns The Straits Times, a daily broadsheet newspaper published in English and situated in Singapore. Its Sunday edition is The Sunday Times. The Straits Times and Singapore Journal of Commerce was the name under which the journal was founded on July 15, 1845. The Straits Times is regarded as Singapore’s official…

Singapore Press Holdings now owns The Straits Times, a daily broadsheet newspaper published in English and situated in Singapore.

Its Sunday edition is The Sunday Times. The Straits Times and Singapore Journal of Commerce was the name under which the journal was founded on July 15, 1845.

The Straits Times is regarded as Singapore’s official newspaper. According to an assessment by Singapore’s Audit Bureau of Circulations, The Straits Times and The Sunday Times’ daily average circulation in 2017 were 364,134 for the print edition and 364,849 for the digital edition, respectively.

Published versions for Myanmar and Brunei had newsprint circulations of 5,000 and 2,500, respectively.

Nagaenthran Dharmalingam Straits Times

Singapore killed a Malaysian man convicted of drug trafficking on Wednesday despite requests for clemency on the basis that he had an intellectual handicap, according to Straits Times.

The case has garnered attention internationally. Nagaenthran Dharmalingam, 34, had spent more than ten years on death row for smuggling 44 grams (1.5 oz) of heroin into Singapore, a country with some of the strictest drug prohibitions in the world.

His attorneys had appealed his death sentence many times, arguing that he had an intellectual disability.

His brother Navin Kumar, 22, informed him over the phone that the execution had taken place and that the body will be sent to Malaysia for burial in the town of Ipoh.

 

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