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- Ex-patriot teen faces caning. // Chinatown News;3/18/94, Vol. 41 Issue 13, p36
Informs that a Singaporean court ordered U.S. teenager Michael Fay, of St. Louis, Missouri, caned and jailed for four months for vandalizing cars, a punishment criticized by a senior U.S. diplomat as excessive. District Court Judge F.G. Remedios; Details of the case.
- Singapore: After the caning, `Mike's in pain.' // Newsweek;5/16/1994, Vol. 123 Issue 20, p41
States that only Michael Fay can say whether the caning he received in Singapore was worse than the anticipation. Comments on his wounds by his parents, Randy Chan and George Fay; The Singaporean government's version; Law and Foreign Affairs Minister Shunmugam Jayakumar; How future first-time...
- Justice in six lashes? Roberts, Melissa // Newsweek;4/11/1994, Vol. 123 Issue 15, p40
Discusses the sentence of flogging awaiting American Michael Fay, 18, for an episode of minor vandalism in Singapore on the Malay Peninsula. Response to his sentence by Americans fed up with juvenile crime; Fay's last hope, a grant of clemency from President Ong Teng Cheong; Description of...
- Whipping boy. Grogan, David; Emmon, Karen // People;4/18/94, Vol. 41 Issue 14, p40
Focuses on the caning sentence for American teenager Michael Fay for spray-painting cars and possessing stolen street signs in Singapore. Differences between the legal system of Singapore and the United States; Singapore government's approach to public order; Description of how a caning...
- Crime & punishment. Elliott, Michael; Annin, Peter // Newsweek;4/18/1994, Vol. 123 Issue 16, p18
Discusses whether the United States should be more like Singapore, where Michael Fay, 18, awaits a sentence of caning that has provoked hot debate in the US. `Newsweek' poll results; Strong support for the caning; Why the US has not championed Michael; Other countries with corporal punishment...
- Contrasting end to tale of two vandals in Singapore. Nee, Seah Chiang // Chinatown News;9/3/94, Vol. 42 Issue 1, p5
Comments on the case of Shiu Chi Ho, a teenager of Singapore who is serving a six-month jail sentence and six strokes of the cane for paint-spraying cars, and how it differs from the case of Michael Fay, the American teenager who also was caned for vandalism. The opposite reactions of the two...
- A Case for American Studies: The Michael Fay Affair, Singapore-US Relations, and American Studies in Singapore. Hodson, Joel // American Studies International;Oct2003, Vol. 41 Issue 3, p4
Examines the ideological differences between the U.S. and Singapore as manifested by the Michael Fay case and Asian values debate, and chronicles the institutionalization of U.S. studies in Singapore. Overview of the case; Need for freedom in an authoritarian East; Belief in the worth of free...
- U.S. officials decry lashing sentence. Lehman, Mary; Spertzel, Jody K. // Corrections Today;Apr94, Vol. 56 Issue 2, p18
Reports that a lashing sentence imposed on an American teenager living in Singapore has drawn sharp from President Bill Clinton and other United States officials. Sentencing of Michael Fay, 18 following conviction from vandalism and mischief; Singapore's dismissal of American criticism.
- America's retreat from disorder. Leo, John // U.S. News & World Report;4/25/94, Vol. 116 Issue 16, p25
Opinion. Discusses how a strong percentage of Americans support the caning of Michael Fay in Singapore. Comments by columnist Charles Krauthammer that the anti-Fay polls may be a reaction to the everything-goes regime of the past 30 years which has given our cities a palpable sense of danger...
