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No it isn't. Absolutely not. No way. Never coming there. Damn this place. Doesn't matter what the offense has to be, it's never fine.
Do you think that each and every judgement of judicial caning was correct? That mistakes can't happen?
Isn't this mostly a myth? You will get fined for littering in Singapore just like elsewhere, though their fines are higher and the police arguably enforces laws against littering more eagerly than in the West. Caning (not flogging) is reserved for more serious offences (IIRC the lightest one is vandalism.)
Dubai employs flogging, but for Shariah offences, not for littering.
Hong Kong doesn't use judicial corporeal punishment at all.
Like all 'proper oldschool' conservative societies, in Dubai laws is applied only to the 'right people'.
For example extramarital sex is a crime, but if you open Tinder it's full of hookers.