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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 26,032 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 622,293.
2022-02-22

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 3,577 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 113,381.
2021-10-6

The Singaporean Ministry of Health announces that it would permit the entry of travelers from Brunei and New Zealand, effective September 1, citing the countries' effective responses to pandemic.
2020-08-21

In 2015, more than 100,000 people in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore may have died as a result of forest fires in Southeast Asia. The continued poor air quality also continues to affect the health of more than 42 million Indonesians.
2016-09-19

The number of Zika virus infected in Singapore rises above 40.
2016-08-29

The United States Congress negotiates a deal to fast track the Trans-Pacific Partnership between the US and Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam.
2015-04-16

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

Gabon signs over US$4 billion of contracts with Indian and Singaporean companies for infrastructure projects, on the eve of the country's 50th anniversary since independence.
2010-08-14