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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves Upside Foods and Good Meat's applications to commercially sell lab-grown meat, making the United States the second country in the world to allow its sale after Singapore.
2023-06-21

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong says that Singapore will decriminalize sex between men, which is illegal under a colonial-era law, while also amending the Constitution to define marriage as a heterosexual union.
2022-08-21

Singapore reports a record 1,650 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 84,510.
2021-09-24

Singapore begins to implement Vaccinated Travel Lane first flight from Germany containing 100 passengers arrived at Changi Airport. The travellers are required to take PCR test and self-isolate until they have received a negative result for their on-arrival test.
2021-09-8

For the first time since February, Singapore reports no new daily cases.
2020-10-13

Halimah Yacob is elected as the first female president of Singapore as the sole candidate in the upcoming elections.
2017-09-12

Lee Kuan Yew, a founding father of Singapore as well as its first prime minister, dies at the age of 91 after a prolonged illness.
2015-03-23

Eric Ding Si Yang, a Singaporean businessman, is charged with corruption for offering free sex to three Lebanese football referees to induce them to fix a match in the AFC Cup.
2013-04-7

Singapore charges five Chinese bus drivers and deports 29 others for holding the country's first strike in 26 years.
2012-12-3

Somali pirates receive a record £7.6m in ransoms for seized South Korean and Singaporean ships.
2010-11-6