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A Singapore tycoon was sentenced to jail for one day for his attempt to illegally buy a kidney on the black market. 
From Bloomberg News:
Retail tycoonTang Wee Sung was sentenced to one day in jail and fined S$17,000 ($11,813) by a Singapore court for trying to buy a kidney and lying about it in a case that’s [...]

59 human trafficking victims were recorded in 2005.
125 victims were recorded in 2006. 
212 recorded in 2007. 
Source: Veronica Uy, “Trafficking of Filipinas in Singapore ‘unabated’-embassy,” Inquirer.net, April 28, 2008.

The world famous efficient government of Singapore is facing some embarrassment as a wanted terrorist escaped from a detention center and has been on the lose for two weeks.
From the IHT:
Mas Selamat Kastari, alleged to be the leader of a terrorist group here, escaped from a high-security prison two weeks ago in a major embarrassment [...]