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Singapore has approved a major increase in ministers’ salaries, lifting Prime Minister Lawrence Wong’s annual package by more than 60%. Singapore’s government is raising the salaries of ministers and other senior office holders, including Wong, the world’s highest-paid political leader. Wong’s annual pay package will rise from about S$2.2 million to S$3.6 million. That represents…

A Singapore court has fined a 19-year-old French student S$600 (about $465) after he posted a viral video showing himself licking a straw from an orange juice vending machine before placing it back into the dispenser. Didier Gaspard Owen Maximilien pleaded guilty to one count of public nuisance following the incident, which sparked widespread public…