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by inglor_cz 1173 days ago
"a city that will have a person flogged for littering"

Isn't this mostly a myth? You will get fined for littering in Singapore just like elsewhere, though their fines are higher and the police arguably enforces laws against littering more eagerly than in the West. Caning (not flogging) is reserved for more serious offences (IIRC the lightest one is vandalism.)

Dubai employs flogging, but for Shariah offences, not for littering.

Hong Kong doesn't use judicial corporeal punishment at all.

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Yes. The normal punishment for littering in Singapore is a fine, while repeat offenders may get Corrective Work Orders, meaning having to pick trash off roads while wearing a yellow flouro vest saying so. Caning is not on the menu.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrective_work_order