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Singapore reports a record 3,590 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 120,454.
2021-10-8

The International Institute for Strategic Studies cancels the Shangri-La Dialogue intergovernmental forum which would have been held in Singapore on June 4–5 due to the worsening of the COVID-19 pandemic situation in the country.
2021-05-20

The judicial commissioner of Singapore sentences a Bangladeshi national to death after he was found guilty of murdering his Indonesian girlfriend two years ago. In Singapore, a charge of murder carries the mandatory death penalty.
2020-12-14

Human remains are found in the sea near where an Indonesian police plane carrying 13 people crashed. The plane was traveling to the island of Batam.
2016-12-4

The Philippines recovers US $29 million from Ferdinand Marcos' bank accounts in Switzerland and Singapore.
2014-02-12

The Singaporean container ship "Sima Sapphire" collides and sinks a Vietnamese fishing vessel about 50 nautical miles to the south of Vũng Tàu, leaving one dead.
2013-09-16

British author Alan Shadrake is jailed for six weeks in Singapore for contempt of court.
2010-11-16

Qantas Flight 32 from Singapore to Sydney makes an emergency landing at Changi Airport after debris suspected to be from the aircraft is found on Batam Island in Indonesia.
2010-11-4

A Singapore court convicts British author Alan Shadrake of insulting the judicial system in his book "Once a Jolly Hangman: Singapore Justice in the Dock".
2010-11-3

Forest fires in Sumatra, Indonesia, cause a thick haze to drift over Singapore.
2010-10-22