{"id":77246,"date":"2026-05-06T14:26:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T05:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/06\/singapore-caning-school-bullies"},"modified":"2026-05-06T14:26:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T05:26:02","slug":"singapore-introduces-caning-for-boys-who-bully-others-at-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=77246","title":{"rendered":"Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under new guidelines caning will only be used in schools for male students aged nine and above<\/p>\n<p>Male school students who bully others, including through cyberbullying, will face caning as a \u201clast resort\u201d under new guidelines introduced in Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>Male students can face up to three strokes of the cane under the new rules, which were discussed in parliament on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/06\/singapore-caning-school-bullies\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under new guidelines caning will only be used in schools for male students aged nine and aboveMale school students who bully others, including through cyberbullying, will face caning as a \u201clast resort\u201d under new guidelines introduced in Singapore.Male &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,3300,783],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-corporal-punishment","category-singapore"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77247,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77246\/revisions\/77247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}