SINGAPORE, June 25 -- A Chinese national who left Singapore during the Covid-19 pandemic and later lost his permanent resident (PR) status has been fined S$9,000 (RM28,500) for defaulting on his national service (NS) obligations, according to CNA.

You Jiahao, 23, pleaded guilty today to two charges under the Enlistment Act, with two other charges taken into consideration.

Although his PR status was revoked in August 2022 after he failed to renew his re-entry permit, the court found he remained liable for offences committed before then.

You became a Singapore PR in 2014 and studied at Outram Secondary School. He left Singapore in August 2020, but failed to register for NS after receiving a registration notice the following year.

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