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The Singaporean Ministry of Health announces the extension of COVID-19 vaccine booster doses to adolescents between the ages of 12 and 17 beginning on March 14.
2022-01-21

Singapore reports a record 5,324 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 184,419.
2021-10-27

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris's trip to Vietnam from Singapore is postponed for several hours following reports of cases of Havana syndrome in Hanoi. Additionally, two other U.S. staff are evacuated from the country.
2021-08-24

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

Traveling through thunderstorms over the Java Sea, Flight 8501 loses contact with air traffic control after the plane departed from the Indonesian city of Surabaya en route to Singapore with 162 people on board.
2014-12-28

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

Voters in Singapore go to the polls for the presidential election.
2011-08-27

Singapore's Presidential Elections Committee approves four presidential candidates for the presidential election on August 27: Tony Tan Keng Yam, Tan Cheng Bock, Tan Kin Lian and Tan Jee Say.
2011-08-17

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

75-year-old author Alan Shadrake is arrested in Singapore while promoting his book about the use of the death penalty. He is charged with criminal defamation and faces two years imprisonment.
2010-07-19