2007 in Singapore
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2006 in Singapore
See also: 2005 in Singapore | Other events of 2006 | 2007 in Singapore | List of years in Singapore-----Events:*January 7 - Exercise Northstar V is carried out at Mass Rapid Transit stations and at Toa Payoh Bus Interchange....
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2008 in Singapore
- Events :*January 9 - Singapore Changi Airport Terminal 3 opens for operations.*February 15 to February 16 - Chingay Parade of Dreams took place at Marina Bay.*February 19 to February 24 - Singapore Airshow 2008 was held at the Changi Exhibition Centre....
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Events
- 12 May - SingaporeSingaporeSingapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
acquires Formula OneFormula OneFormula One, also known as Formula 1 or F1 and referred to officially as the FIA Formula One World Championship, is the highest class of single seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile . The "formula" designation in the name refers to a set of rules with which...
rights to host a leg of the Formula One 2008 World Championship2008 Formula One seasonThe 2008 Formula One season was the 59th FIA Formula One World Championship season. It began on 16 March and ended on 2 November with eighteen Grand Prix races....
race series in September or October 2008. - 28 June - The University of New South Wales Asia campus in Singapore closed.
- 30 June - The National StadiumNational Stadium, SingaporeThe Singapore National Stadium was located in Kallang. Opened in July 1973, the National Stadium was officially closed on 30 June 2007 and has demolished to make way for the Singapore Sports Hub and New Singapore National Stadium which is expected to open in 2014.The stadium has played host to...
held its official closing ceremony. - 1 July - The Goods and Services TaxGoods and Services Tax (Singapore)Goods and Services Tax in Singapore is a broad-based value added tax levied on import of goods, as well as nearly all supplies of goods and services. The only exemptions are for the sales and leases of residential properties and most financial services...
was raised from 5% to 7%. - 20 July - SingTel's mio TVMio TVmio TV is a 24-hours pay-TV service, introduced by SingTel. It is transmitted through the company's SingNet broadband network via an IPTV service and uses Microsoft Mediaroom as its end to end software platform. It is a service that will allow multimedia content - including broadcast channels and...
was launched commercially. - 9 August - Singapore celebrates her 42nd (XLII) national dayNational DayThe National Day is a designated date on which celebrations mark the nationhood of a nation or non-sovereign country. This nationhood can be symbolized by the date of independence, of becoming republic or a significant date for a patron saint or a ruler . Often the day is not called "National Day"...
, with her NDP 2007 held at the Marina Bay Floating StadiumMarina Bay Floating StadiumThe Float at Marina Bay, stylised as The Float@Marina Bay and also known as the Marina Bay Floating Platform , is the world's largest floating stage...
. - 15 October - Singapore AirlinesSingapore AirlinesSingapore Airlines Limited is the flag carrier airline of Singapore. Singapore Airlines operates a hub at Changi Airport and has a strong presence in the Southeast Asia, East Asia, South Asia, and "Kangaroo Route" markets...
takes delivery of the 1st Airbus A380Airbus A380The Airbus A380 is a double-deck, wide-body, four-engine jet airliner manufactured by the European corporation Airbus, a subsidiary of EADS. It is the largest passenger airliner in the world. Due to its size, many airports had to modify and improve facilities to accommodate it...
superjumbo jet. - 11 November - MediaCorpMediaCorpMedia Corporation of Singapore, better known as MediaCorp, is a group of commercial media companies in Singapore, with business interests in television and radio broadcasting, interactive media, and, to a lesser extent, print publishing and film-making....
officially roll out its MediaCorp TV HD5MediaCorp TV HD5MediaCorp TV HD5 or HD5 is a 24-hour Singapore first over-the-air HDTV channel simulcasting HD version of MediaCorp TV Channel 5 programming when available...
television signal. - 18 November to 22 November - Singapore hosted the 13th ASEAN Summit and Third East Asia SummitEast Asia SummitThe East Asia Summit is a forum held annually by leaders of, initially, 16 countries in the East Asian region. Membership will expand to 18 countries including the United States and Russia at the Sixth EAS in 2011. EAS meetings are held after annual ASEAN leaders’ meetings...
. - 19 November - Singapore was shortlisted as a candidate city to host the 2010 Youth Olympics2010 Summer Youth OlympicsThe 2010 Summer Youth Olympics, officially known as the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games , were an international multi-sport event for youths that took place in the city-state of Singapore from 14 to 26 August 2010, in the XXIX Olympiad. They were the inaugural Summer Youth Olympics, a major...
. - 24 November - A group of 5 national dragonboaters drowns in a dragonboating competition in CambodiaCambodiaCambodia , officially known as the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia...
's Tonle SapTonlé SapThe Tonlé Sap is a combined lake and river system of major importance to Cambodia.The Tonlé Sap is the largest freshwater lake in South East Asia and is an ecological hot spot that was designated as a UNESCO biosphere in 1997....
river. - 6 December to 15 December - Team Singapore participated in the 2007 Southeast Asian Games2007 Southeast Asian GamesThe 24th Southeast Asian Games was held in Nakhon Ratchasima , Thailand from December 6 to December 15, 2007....
in ThailandThailandThailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...
and won 43 gold, 43 silver and 41 bronze medals. - 16 December - Singapore IdolSingapore IdolSingapore Idol is a television show on Channel 5 of MediaCorp TV. It is a competition among undiscovered singers in Singapore. Like others in the Idol series, it is modelled after Pop Idol. The current judges are singer/songwriter Dick Lee and record producers Florence Lian and Ken Lim. Previous...
Hady MirzaHady MirzaHady Mirza is a Singaporean singer of Bugis descent, with his grandparents hailing from Sulawesi. He is the winner of the second season of the reality TV show Singapore Idol...
became the 1st Asian IdolAsian IdolAsian Idol is a reality singing competition, which featured winners of Idol competitions from six Southeast and South Asian countries consisting of India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, and Vietnam...
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Sports
- February 4 - Singapore won the 2007 ASEAN Football Championship2007 ASEAN Football ChampionshipThe 2007 ASEAN Football Championship was the 6th ASEAN Football Championship, hosted by Singapore and Thailand....
, thereby defending their championship. - November - The national football team of SingaporeSingapore national football teamThe Singapore national football team is the national association football team of Singapore. The team comes under the organization of the Football Association of Singapore...
manages to get into the third round of the 2010 World Cup qualifiersFIFA World Cup qualificationThe FIFA World Cup qualification is the process that a national association football team goes through to qualify for the FIFA World Cup Finals. The FIFA World Cup is a global event, so qualification is required to reduce the large field of participants from about 200 to 32.Qualifying tournaments...
of the Asian qualifying section. - 28 December - Tennis queen Maria SharapovaMaria SharapovaMaria Yuryevna Sharapova ,. is a Russian professional tennis player and a former world no. 1. A US resident since 1994, Sharapova has won 24 WTA singles titles, including three Grand Slam singles titles at the 2004 Wimbledon, 2006 US Open and 2008 Australian Open...
arrives in Singapore for an exhibition match.
Deaths
- June 24 - Thaddeus Cheong Wing Kit, a triathlete, dies after completing a triathlonTriathlonA triathlon is a multi-sport event involving the completion of three continuous and sequential endurance events. While many variations of the sport exist, triathlon, in its most popular form, involves swimming, cycling, and running in immediate succession over various distances...
, which was part of the SEA Games selection trial. He was 17. - November 9 - Sim Kee BoonSim Kee BoonSim Kee Boon was one of Singapore's pioneer civil servants - men who worked closely with the Old Guard political leaders and played a key role in the success of Changi Airport and turned the fortunes of Keppel Shipyard around....
, a former civil service head once credited for turning Singapore Changi AirportSingapore Changi AirportSingapore Changi Airport , Changi International Airport, or simply Changi Airport, is the main airport in Singapore. A major aviation hub in Southeast Asia, it is about north-east from the commercial centre in Changi, on a site....
into a 'world-class airport', and who played a key role in the success of the airport