Singapore, formerly known as the Republic of Singapore, formerly known as Singapore, Xingzhou or Star Island, or Lion City, is an island country in Southeast Asia. Its political system is a parliamentary system. Singapore is adjacent to Malaysia across the Strait of Johor to the north, Indonesia to the south across the Singapore Strait, and adjacent to the southern entrance of the Strait of Malacca. In addition to the island of Singapore, its territory also includes several surrounding islands.
Singapore is a developed country in Asia and is known as one of the "Four Asian Tigers". Its economic model is called "state capitalism". According to the 2014 Global Financial Centers Index (GFCI) ranking report, Singapore is the third largest international financial center after New York and London, and is also one of the important service and shipping centers in Asia. Singapore is a member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Commonwealth of Nations and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC).
1. Caning is a legal form of corporal punishment and is widely practiced in Singapore. Caning can be broken down into the following situations: judicial, prison, military, reformatory, school, and domestic/lynching. 2. Articles 325 to 332 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Singapore explain the whipping provisions as follows: Adult male criminals aged between 18 and 50 can be whipped only after being confirmed by a medical official to be in good health. A criminal can only receive 24 lashes at a time, regardless of how many crimes he has committed. If the prisoner is under 18 years old, he can be whipped up to 10 times at a time, but the whipping will be lighter than usual. Boys under the age of 16 can only be sentenced to caning by the Supreme Court. District courts and juvenile courts have no power to impose caning. Death row prisoners are not whipped. The thickness of the whip cannot exceed 1.3 cm and the length cannot exceed 1.2 m3. Under Singapore law, caning is applicable to more than 30 different crimes, including: hostage-taking/kidnapping, robbery by a violent gang resulting in the death of the victim, illegal drug use, and damage to public property (including painting on walls in public places) , indecent assault (obscenity) and illegal possession of weapons (including knives and daggers). Flogging is mandatory for the following crimes: Rape is illegal.