SINGAPORE (AFP) - A former Singaporean newspaper worker has been arrested for threatening an opposition leader and his family ahead of a by-election, his employer and police said Friday.
The 23-year-old is accused of sending menacing emails to Reform Party head Kenneth Jeyaretnam, who had previously received messages he described as "tantamount to death threats".
Media group Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) said in its flagship newspaper The Straits Times that the man was a clerk in its classified ads department.
"A temporary staff member is being investigated for a criminal offence which has no bearing on, or (is) related to SPH," a newspaper spokesman was quoted in the report as saying. "He has since resigned, and we have accepted his resignation." Full story
