Court of Appeal says the trial judge erred by imposing only five strokes when the minimum should be 12 for male offenders ...

PUTRAJAYA: The Court of Appeal has upheld the life imprisonment sentence on a trader for trafficking 213.58g of methamphetamine and increased his corporal punishment from five to 12 strokes of the ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Singapore’s government said Friday that scammers will face mandatory caning of up to 24 strokes from Dec. 30, under changes to criminal law to deter surging fraud cases.

A Kaduna Chief Magistrates’ Court on Thursday ordered that a teenager, Olalekan Michael, be given 12 strokes of the cane for stealing a laptop. Magistrate Ibrahim Emmanuel said that the punishment was ...