SINGAPORE: Former local actor Edmund Chen returned to court on Wednesday (Mar 4) to obtain permission to travel to China and Japan.
Chen, 64, is on bail pending his appeal against a five-day jail term for careless driving on an expressway that resulted in fractures to a motorcyclist.
The prosecution did not object to the application to travel, but noted that Chen’s flight risk, while low, was “not zero”.
District Judge Shawn Ho, who is the same judge who imposed the jail term instead of a fine called for by both prosecution and defence, granted Chen’s application to travel.
