Singapore denies Future Music Festival Asia licence over drug abuse concerns


The FMFA concert in Bukit Jalil Stadium was cancelled last year due to six drug-related deaths.

SINGAPORE: A dance music festival which made headlines last year when six people died from drug overdose in Kuala Lumpur has been denied a licence for the show to be staged here next weekend.

The organiser of Future Music Festival Asia 2015 told Singapore's The Straits Times that its application for a licence has been rejected by the police twice and it is appealing the decision.

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