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Former senior minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam is elected as the 9th president of Singapore with over 70% of the valid votes.
2023-09-1

Taiwan, Lebanon, Singapore and South Korea report their first cases of monkeypox.
2022-06-24

Singapore reports its first confirmed death related to the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in an unvaccinated 92-year-old woman.
2022-01-22

The Singaporean health ministry will administer booster doses of the COVID-19 vaccine for people over the age of 60, people who are immunocompromised and residents of nursing home facilities beginning later this month.
2021-09-3

Singapore announces the first giant panda cub in the city-state when the 12-year-old panda Jia Jia gave birth to a cub at River Safari after being artificially inseminated with frozen semen from 13-year-old Kai Kai.
2021-08-15

Singapore enters technical recession for the first time in a decade after its economy contracts by 13.2% in the second quarter, which translates to a record 42.9% plunge in its annualised GDP.
2020-08-11

In a hearing conducted over Zoom, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a court in Singapore sentences a 37-year-old Malaysian man to death for a 2011 heroin transaction. It is the first time that a death sentence has been imposed via teleconferencing in Singapore.
2020-05-20

U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un meet for a historic summit on Sentosa Island in Singapore. This marks the first time that the leaders of both countries have met.
2018-06-12

Taiwan and Singapore agree to hold talks on a free trade deal.
2010-08-5