Mandarin Oriental, Singapore

Mandarin Oriental is located in Marina Centre, Singapore.[2] Originally built in 1987, the Mandarin Oriental, Singapore underwent a significant renovation in 2004 to update the hotel's interiors.[3] In both 2010 and 2011, Mandarin Oriental, Singapore was named in Condé Nast Traveler's Gold List.[4]

The hotel's 527 rooms and suites overlooks the Singapore city skyline.[5] US Architect John Portman designed the atrium-style hotel based on a theatre concept and intended the exterior of the structure to resemble a fan, a nod to the Mandarin Oriental logo.[6][7] Near 100 pieces of fine regional art adorn the property's interior.[8]

The hotel offers business and personal amenities for its guests. It has ball rooms, suites, function rooms and boardrooms for meetings.[9] Additionally, the hotel has a Business Center available to its guests.

The hotel houses six restaurants, as well as a bar and a private lounge.[10][11][12] The Oriental Club is the largest hotel lounge in Singapore.[13] It also has a pool and spa facilities within its premises.

On 6 June 1994, a Japanese tour group arrived at the hotel while having a company-sponsored overseas trip to Singapore. While checking in their rooms, two female members of the Japanese tour group were attacked by two Malay men who severely assaulted them while robbing them. One of the tourists, 49-year-old Fujii Isae, sustained facial fractures which led to obstruction of her breathing and eventually, death by asphyxia, while the other, Fujii's 56-year-old cleaner colleague Takishita Miyoko survived the brutal assault and robbery. The case was classified as murder and the police were seeking information from the public to capture the perpetrators, with promises of monetary rewards and a police sketch of one of the robbers being released in public. The case was known as the "Oriental Hotel murder" in media.

It was two years later in 1996 before the two men were finally arrested and brought to justice. One of them, 27-year-old Abdul Nasir bin Amer Hamsah, was arrested in late January 1996 for attempting to rob and murder a taxi driver, and while he was undergoing investigations for this unrelated crime, the police managed to link him to the case at Oriental Hotel after they matched his fingerprints to the ones found in the room where Fujii and Takishita were attacked. Following Abdul Nasir's confession, the police also managed to capture Abdul Nasir's accomplice, 34-year-old Abdul Rahman bin Arshad (alias Azman), who was found to be in prison serving a 20-month jail term for unrelated crimes of theft.

Both men were charged with murder, but subsequently, the duo managed to escape the murder charge and escpae the gallows by receiving final convictions of robbery with hurt. Abdul Rahman, whose murder charge was reduced and to which he pleaded guilty in early June 1996, was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment and 16 strokes of the cane while Abdul Nasir, who was identified to be the man fatally attacking Fujii and claimed trial for murder in late June 1996 unlike Abdul Rahman, was sentenced to 18 years' imprisonment and 18 strokes of the cane. During the time Abdul Nasir was undergoing trial, the case received attention from not just local, but the Japanese media as Japan was upset about the incident. As an aftermath of the case, Abdul Nasir was also given a consecutive 20-year jail term and 12 strokes of the cane in a separate trial for an unrelated charge of kidnapping, which led to Abdul Nasir having to serve a total of 38 years' imprisonment and 30 strokes of the cane.[14][15][16]

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  Pool Area at Mandarin Oriental, Singapore
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  Oriental Club at Mandarin Oriental, Singapore
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  Interior view of Mandarin Oriental Singapore

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