SINGAPORE, March 25 -- A man born in Singapore but granted Indonesian citizenship as a child has been convicted of dodging national service (NS), after a court ruled he could not "cherry-pick" which laws to follow, CNA reported.

Edmond Yao Zhi Hai, 47, was found guilty of failing to report for enlistment in January 1997, despite long-standing arguments that serving would have cost him his Indonesian citizenship.

The case turns on a decades-long dispute over nationality and obligation, with Yao maintaining that Indonesian law barred him from foreign military service - and that he believed he did not need to serve in Singapore.

His defence argued that he had been led to believe his Singapore citizenship would lapse, and that authorities ...