99-Year Lease or 99-Year Risk? What Singaporean Property Investors Must Know About the Private Lease Scheme (PLS) in Malaysia
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- December 25, 2024
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Both Lawyers Agree, Yet the Court Says No: What Edmund Chen’s Case Teaches About Sentencing Discretion0
By Boo Kok Chuon The recent sentencing appeal involving former actor Edmund Chen attracted considerable public attention. Unsurprisingly, most of the discussion centred on whether five days’ imprisonment was too lenient, and whether the High Court was right to cut it down to one day. Public discourse naturally gravitates towards outcomes. Legal minds, however, tend
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Borrowing at 1%: Have We Finally Discovered Free Money?0
By Boo Kok Chuon On 16 July 2026, Standard Chartered Singapore publicly advertised its CashOne Personal Loan at interest rates from 0.90% per annum, translating to an effective interest rate (EIR) from 1.75% per annum, depending on the borrower’s credit profile and loan tenure. Barely three weeks earlier, on 23 June 2026, the Department of
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Why S$230,000 Was Justified: Understanding Defamation Damages Through Shanmugam v Bloomberg0
By Boo Kok Chuon When the High Court awarded Mr K Shanmugam and Mr Tan See Leng S$230,000 each in general and aggravated damages against Bloomberg LP and its reporter Mr Low De Wei in Shanmugam Kasiviswanathan v Bloomberg LP [2026] SGHC 147, the figure immediately became the subject of public debate. Some questioned whether
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Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce and the Enforceability of Prenuptial Agreements in Singapore0
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- July 10, 2026
By Boo Kok Chuon Recent media reports about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce have put prenuptial agreements back in the spotlight. Whether the couple has actually entered into one is their own business. What the coverage does surface, though, is a question increasingly asked by entrepreneurs, professionals and business owners in Singapore: if two adults
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