The following lists events that happened during 1995 in Singapore.

Incumbents

President President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) * President (education), a leader of a college or university *President (government title) President may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Film and television *'' Præsident ...

Ong Teng Cheong Ong Teng Cheong (22 January 1936 – 8 February 2002) was a Singaporean statesman, architect and union leader who served as the fifth president of Singapore between 1993 and 1999. Born when Singapore was a part of the Singapore in the Straits ...

Prime Minister A prime minister or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. A prime minister is not the head of state, but r ...

Goh Chok Tong Goh Chok Tong (born 20 May 1941) is a Singaporean former politician who served as the second prime minister of Singapore from 1990 to 2004 and as a senior minister of Singapore from 2004 to 2011. He served as the secretary-general of the Peo ...

Events

February

* 26 February – Britain's oldest merchant bank,

Barings Bank Barings Bank was a British merchant bank based in London. It was one of England's oldest merchant banks after Berenberg Bank, Barings' close collaborator and German representative. It was founded in 1762 by Francis Baring, a British-born member ...

, collapses as a result of Briton

Nick Leeson Nicholas William Leeson (born 25 February 1967) is an English former derivatives trader whose fraudulent, unauthorised and speculative trades resulted in the 1995 collapse of Barings Bank, the United Kingdom's oldest existing merchant bank ...

's trading activities, which lost $1.4 billion by speculating on the

Singapore International Monetary Exchange Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX Group) is a Singapore-based exchange conglomerate, operating Equity (finance), equity, fixed income, currency and commodity markets. It provides a range of listing, trading, clearing, settlement, depository and ...

, primarily using

futures contract In finance, a futures contract (sometimes called futures) is a standardized legal contract to buy or sell something at a predetermined price for delivery at a specified time in the future, between parties not yet known to each other. The item tr ...

s. He was arrested on November 23 after fleeing Singapore for 272 days. Subsequently, Nick Leeson pleaded guilty to two out of three charges of forgery and eight charges of cheating. He was sentenced to 6.5 years in prison.

March

* 1 March – Singapore’s

Family Court Family courts were originally created to be a Court of Equity convened to decide matters and make orders in relation to family law, including custody of children, and could disregard certain legal requirements as long as the petitioner/plaintif ...

was established. * 4 March – The

Kranji Expressway The Kranji Expressway (abbreviation: KJE) in Singapore connects from the BKE in Bukit Panjang and travels south-west to join with the PIE in Jurong West. Construction of the expressway started in 1990 and was completed in 1994. The expressway ...

was officially opened. * 8 March – Briton

John Martin Scripps John Martin Scripps (9 December 1959 – 19 April 1996), also known as the Garden City Butcher, and "Tourist From Hell" was an English people, English serial killer who murdered three tourists—Gerard Lowe in Singapore, and Sheila and Darin Da ...

murdered South African Gerard George Lowe in River View Hotel, dismembered his body, and disposed of the body parts in the

Singapore River The Singapore River is a river that flows parallel to Alexandra Road and feeds into the Marina Reservoir in the southern part of Singapore. The immediate upper drainage basin, watershed of the Singapore River is known as the Singapore River Plann ...

. He was found guilty of murder and hanged on 19 April 1996. * 17 March –

Flor Contemplacion Flor Ramos Contemplacion (7 January 1953 – 17 March 1995) was a Filipina domestic worker who was executed in Singapore after being convicted of murdering a fellow Filipina maid and the three-year-old boy whom she was babysitting. At the ti ...

, a Filipina

domestic worker A domestic worker is a person who works within a residence and performs a variety of household services for an individual, from providing cleaning and household maintenance, or cooking, laundry and ironing, or care for children and elderly ...

, was hanged on 4 May 1991 for the murder of fellow worker, Delia Maga, and her four-year-old charge, Nicholas Huang. * 26 March –

Walt Disney Television The first and original incarnation of Walt Disney Television was an American production company and the original/former television production division of the Walt Disney Company, which was active from April 18, 1983 to 2003. Productions from ...

's Satellite Facility officially opened, making it

Disney The Walt Disney Company, commonly referred to as simply Disney, is an American multinational mass media and entertainment industry, entertainment conglomerate (company), conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios (Burbank), Walt Di ...

's first international centre. The facility broadcast

programmes to

Southeast Asia Southeast Asia is the geographical United Nations geoscheme for Asia#South-eastern Asia, southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Mainland Au ...

April

* 27 April – The ST Teleport is launched for telecommunications and broadcasting purposes. *End April -

IKEA IKEA ( , ) is a Multinational corporation, multinational conglomerate (company), conglomerate founded in Sweden that designs and sells , household goods, and various related services. IKEA is owned and operated by a series of not-for-profit an ...

Alexandra store, the first new building adjacent to Queensway Shopping Centre, is officially opened.

May

* 2 May – The first C651 trains are put into operation on the North South and East West lines. * 17 May – The Chinese Heritage Centre is officially opened in

Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is a public research university in Singapore. Founded in 1981, it is also the second oldest autonomous university in the country. The university is organised across numerous colleges and schools, includi ...

, showcasing Chinese culture and history.

June

* 2 June – The National Day Ceremony song "My People My Home" is unveiled and announced to be used for the 1995 National Day Parade. Since then, the NDP has been scheduled at

Padang Padang () is the Capital city, capital and largest city of the Indonesian Provinces of Indonesia, province of West Sumatra. It had a population of 833,562 at the 2010 CensusBiro Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2011. and 909,040 at the 2020 Census;Bad ...

every five years. * 12 June – Dongli 88.3FM (present day

883Jia 883Jia is a Singaporean Chinese-language and only bilingual radio station owned by So Drama! Entertainment. It plays Mandarin and English music from the 1980s up to the 2020s on the airwaves. The station also provides Cantonese, Japanese and Kor ...

) is launched as a bilingual radio station by SAFRA. * 23 June –

Singapore Cable Vision Star Hub TV is a pay television service provided by StarHub in Singapore. It has been a subsidiary of ''StarHub Limited'' since StarHub acquired ''Singapore Cable Vision'' (SCV) in 2001, and was the sole pay-TV operator in the country until 200 ...

is officially launched as a

cable television Cable television is a system of delivering television programming to consumers via radio frequency (RF) signals transmitted through coaxial cables, or in more recent systems, light pulses through fibre-optic cables. This contrasts with bro ...

provider, providing Singaporeans with more entertainment options. The whole cable system is completed in 1998, initially its coverage was limited to Tampines. * 24 June – The

Ren Ci Hospital Ren Ci Hospital ( Chinese: 仁慈医院) is one of the first few charity healthcare institutions in Singapore to provide affordable healthcare and rehabilitative services in Singapore. Established in 1994, Ren Ci Hospital currently has three faci ...

is officially opened. * 26 June –

MTV Southeast Asia MTV was a pan-Asian music pay television channel that was launched on 5 May 1995 as a standalone pay television service. The channel was owned by Paramount Networks EMEAA. History Pre-launch The first incarnation of MTV Asia was launched on ...

's broadcasting centre was officially opened. It had production facilities which broadcast

MTV MTV (an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable television television channel, channel and the flagship property of the MTV Entertainment Group sub-division of the Paramount Media Networks division of Paramount Global. Launched on ...

English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Culture, language and peoples * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England * ''English'', an Amish ter ...

heralding a wave of

American English American English, sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of variety (linguistics), varieties of the English language native to the United States. English is the Languages of the United States, most widely spoken lang ...

music video programmes.

July

* 1 July ** CityCab starts operations, formed from the merger of three taxi companies: Singapore Airport Bus Service Ltd (SABS), Singapore Bus Service Taxi Pte Ltd (SBS Taxi Pte Ltd) and Singapore Commuter Pte Ltd. ** The West Coast Barter Trade Centre closes due to declining use.

August

*1 August – The Seletar Satellite Earth Station is officially opened. *6 August – The

UOB Plaza , image = At Singapore 2023 106.jpg , image_caption = UOB Plaza in 2023 , alternate_names = United Overseas Bank Plaza , location = Downtown Core, Singapore , coordinates = , start_date = Plaza One: 1992 ...

is officially opened. It joins OUB Centre (present-day One Raffles Place) as Singapore's tallest buildings at 280 metres, until

Guoco Tower Guoco Tower is a mixed-use development skyscraper in Tanjong Pagar of the Downtown Core district of Singapore. With a height of , it is currently the tallest building in Singapore, breaking the record held jointly by UOB Plaza, One Raffles Pl ...

's completion in 2016, which is 290 metres. *20 August – The

Selective En bloc Redevelopment Scheme The Selective En bloc Redevelopment Scheme, or SERS for short, is an urban redevelopment strategy employed by the Housing and Development Board in Singapore in maintaining and upgrading public housing flats in older estates in the city-state. L ...

(SERS) is announced to unlock economic value for residential buildings. On the same day, the Executive Condominium scheme is introduced to meet Singaporeans' aspirations for condominium living, which may be too expensive for some. *22 August – Sites located at Boon Tiong Road and Tiong Bahru Road are selected for the first SERS project. *25 August –

SAFTI Military Institute The SAFTI Military Institute ( zh, 新加坡武装部队军训学院, , ) is a military institute of the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) comprising five schools: Goh Keng Swee Command and Staff College, three SAF Advanced Schools, and the Offic ...

is officially opened in

Jurong West Jurong West is a Planning Areas of Singapore, planning area and New towns of Singapore, residential town located in the West Region, Singapore, West Region of Singapore. Jurong West shares Wiktionary:boundary, boundaries with Tengah, Singapore, ...

. *30 August – The Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre (now Suntec) is officially opened.

September

*1 September – **Plans for a new arts radio station were announced at the launch of Prime 12 and Premiere 12. **The

Land Transport Authority The Land Transport Authority (LTA) is a Statutory boards of the Singapore Government, statutory board under the Ministry of Transport (Singapore), Ministry of Transport of the Government of Singapore. History Incorporation The Land Transport Au ...

was launched to develop the

land transport Land transport is the transport or movement of people, animals or goods from one location to another location on land. This is in contrast with other main types of transport such as maritime transport and aviation. The two main forms of land tr ...

system in Singapore. **The

National Library Board The National Library Board (NLB) is a statutory board under the purview of the Ministry of Digital Development and Information of the government of Singapore. The board manages the public libraries throughout the country. The national l ...

was launched to improve

libraries A library is a collection of Book, books, and possibly other Document, materials and Media (communication), media, that is accessible for use by its members and members of allied institutions. Libraries provide physical (hard copies) or electron ...

in Singapore. **The prefix '9' is

added Addition (usually signified by the plus symbol, +) is one of the four basic operations of arithmetic, the other three being subtraction, multiplication, and division. The addition of two whole numbers results in the total or '' sum'' of tho ...

to all mobile numbers. **A new six-digit

postal code A postal code (also known locally in various English-speaking countries throughout the world as a postcode, post code, PIN or ZIP Code) is a series of letters or numerical digit, digits or both, sometimes including spaces or punctuation, inclu ...

system takes effect, replacing the four-digit system used since 1979. *5 September – **

Pacific Internet Pacnet was a global telecommunications service provider between 2008 and 2015. It was formed from the operational merger of Asia Netcom and Pacific Internet on 8 January 2008. It was owned by a private investor group comprising Ashmore Investmen ...

starts operations as Singapore's second

ISP An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides a myriad of services related to accessing, using, managing, or participating in the Internet. ISPs can be organized in various forms, such as commercial, community-owned, non ...

, after acquiring TechNet on 19 June. ** Cyberway Internet is awarded an

licence, making it Singapore's third Internet operator. * 8 September – Parco Bugis Junction is opened to the public.

October

* 1 October – The

Public Utilities Board PUB, Singapore's National Water Agency, commonly known as PUB, an acronym for Public Utilities Board, is a Statutory boards of the Singapore Government, statutory board under the Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment of the Government of ...

is reconstituted, resulting in the setting up of Singapore Power (now

SP Group SP Group is a State-owned enterprise, state-owned electricity and gas distribution company in Singapore. SP Group is the corporatised entity of the former electricity and gas departments of the Public Utilities Board (Singapore), Public Utiliti ...

). * 20 October – The National Orchid Garden was opened.

November

* 2 November –

Parliament In modern politics and history, a parliament is a legislative body of government. Generally, a modern parliament has three functions: Representation (politics), representing the Election#Suffrage, electorate, making laws, and overseeing ...

passed the Maintenance of Parents Act, a private member's bill introduced by Woon Cheong Ming Walter. * 5 November – The second phase of the

Seletar Expressway The Seletar Expressway (Abbreviation: SLE) is a highway in Singapore that traverses the northern end of the island and joins the Central Expressway (CTE) and the Tampines Expressway (TPE) in Seletar to the Bukit Timah Expressway (BKE) in Kranji ...

opened. * 10 November –

Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal The Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal is a ferry terminal in Singapore, located at Changi. The terminal serves ferry services to the Indonesian islands of Batam and Bintan, and Desaru, in Johor, Malaysia. It is owned and managed by Singapore Cruis ...

is officially opened to enhance ferry links. * 25 November –

Century Square Century Square (Chinese: 世纪广场) is a 6-storey shopping mall in Tampines, Singapore. It is located near Tampines MRT station and next to Tampines Mall. Opened in 1995, Century Square underwent expansion in 2005 and renovations in 2018. His ...

is officially opened.

December

* 7 December –

Jurong Point Jurong Point ( Chinese:裕廊坊) is a large regional shopping mall in the precinct of Jurong West Central in Jurong West, Singapore. It is next to Boon Lay MRT station and Boon Lay Bus Interchange. It is currently the largest shopping mall in S ...

opens its doors. * 29 December – Nanook the polar bear (of

Singapore Zoo The Singapore Zoo, formerly known as the Singapore Zoological Gardens or Mandai Zoo, is a zoo located on the margins of Upper Seletar Reservoir within Singapore's heavily forested central catchment area. It is operated by the Mandai Wildl ...

) dies at the age of 18.

Births

* 28 January – He Yingying, Mediacorp actress * 16 June –

Joseph Schooling Joseph Isaac Schooling (born 16 June 1995) is a Singaporean former professional swimmer who specialised in butterfly, freestyle, and medley events. He was the gold medalist in the 100m butterfly at the 2016 Olympics, achieving Singapore's ...

, swimmer. * 17 June -

Chantalle Ng Chantalle Ng (born 17 June 1995) is a Singaporean actress. Early life and education Ng is the daughter of Mediacorp artiste Lin Meijiao and former actor Huang Yiliang. The couple divorced in 1997 when Ng was only a few months old. Ng studied ...

, Mediacorp TV actress * 22 June - Amanda Germaine Lee, MADDSpace Senior Vocal Coach. * 7 August –

Kimberly Chia Kimberly Chia Jing Yi (born 7 August 1995) is a Singaporean actress. Early life and education Chia graduated from Compassvale Secondary School in 2011. Whilst she had wanted to study at LASALLE College of the Arts upon graduating, having r ...

, actress. * 6 September –

Seow Sin Nee Seow Sin Nee (born 6 September 1995) is a Malaysian host, actress and radio DJ who made her debut through the Mediacorp radio DJ talent competition, ''The Sound Makers'', in 2019. Seow later went on to win the Channel 8 talent search competit ...

, actress and host. * 14 December -

Yung Raja Rajid Ahamed Yousuf Arafat (born 14 December 1995), known by his stage name Yung Raja, is a Singaporean-Tamil rapper and songwriter. He is known for his use of Tanglish, a mix of Tamil and English, in his raps. Early life Rajid Ahamed was bor ...

, Singaporean Tamil rapper, TV actor.

Deaths

* 11 June – Ang Chwee Chai, pioneer of photography (b. 1910). * 1 September – Ye Fong, comedian (b. 1932). * 20 September – Chiou Sin Min, prominent figure in Singaporean education and Southeast Asian history (b. 1914). * 4 October – Eu Chooi Yip, one of the prominent leaders of the

Malayan Communist Party The Malayan Communist Party (MCP), officially the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM), was a Marxist–Leninist and anti-imperialist communist party which was active in British Malaya and later, the modern states of Malaysia and Singapore f ...

in Singapore (b. 1918). * 12 December – David Marshall, 1st

Chief Minister of Singapore The chief minister of Singapore was the head of government of the Colony of Singapore until its abolition on 3 June 1959. It was replaced by the office of Prime Minister. The chief minister was appointed by the governor of Singapore. The chief m ...

(b. 1908). * 16 December –

Anthony Then Anthony, also spelled Antony, is a masculine given name derived from the ''Antonia (gens), Antonii'', a ''gens'' (Roman naming conventions, Roman family name) to which Mark Antony (''Marcus Antonius'') belonged. According to Plutarch, the Antonii ...

, dance pioneer (b. 1944).

References

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