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2007 in Singapore

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Other events of 2007 Timeline of Singaporean history

The following lists events that happened during 2007 in the Republic of Singapore.

Contents

Incumbents

  • President: S.R. Nathan
  • Prime Minister: Lee Hsien Loong

    • Events

  • 12 May – Singapore acquires Formula One rights to host a leg of the Formula One 2008 World Championship race series in September or October 2008.
  • 28 June – The University of New South Wales Asia campus in Singapore closed.
  • 30 June – The National Stadium held its official closing ceremony.
  • 1 July – The Goods and Services Tax was raised from 5% to 7%.
  • 20 July – SingTel's mio TV was launched commercially.
  • 9 August – Singapore celebrates her 42nd (XLII) national day, with her NDP 2007 held at the Marina Bay Floating Stadium.
  • 15 October – Singapore Airlines takes delivery of the 1st Airbus A380 superjumbo jet.
  • 25 October – Singapore Airlines makes its first commercial flight of the Airbus A380.
  • 11 November – MediaCorp officially roll out its MediaCorp TV HD5 television signal.
  • 18 to 22 November – Singapore hosted the 13th ASEAN Summit and Third East Asia Summit.
  • 19 November – Singapore was shortlisted as a candidate city to host the 2010 Youth Olympics.
  • 24 November – A group of 5 national dragonboaters drowns in a dragonboating competition in Cambodia's Tonle Sap river.
  • 6 to 15 December – Team Singapore participated in the 2007 Southeast Asian Games in Thailand and won 43 gold, 43 silver and 41 bronze medals.
  • 16 December – Singapore Idol Hady Mirza became the 1st Asian Idol.

    • Sports

  • 4 February – Singapore won the 2007 ASEAN Football Championship, thereby defending their championship.
  • November – The national football team of Singapore manages to get into the third round of the 2010 World Cup qualifiers of the Asian qualifying section.
  • 28 December – Tennis queen Maria Sharapova arrives in Singapore for an exhibition match.

    • Deaths

  • 24 June – Thaddeus Cheong Wing Kit, a triathlete, dies after completing a triathlon, which was part of the SEA Games selection trial. He was 17.
  • 9 November – Sim Kee Boon, a former civil service head once credited for turning Singapore Changi Airport into a 'world-class airport', and who played a key role in the success of the airport

    • References

    2007 in Singapore Wikipedia
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