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Event. 1819. 29 January. Sir Stamford Raffles arrives in Singapore with William Farquhar to establish a trading post for the British East India Company . 6 February. The treaty is signed between Sultan Hussein of Johor, Temenggong Abdul Rahman and Sir Stamford Raffles . William Farquhar is installed as the first Resident of the settlement . 1821.
CNA (TV network) CNA (stylised as cna ), which is an initialism derived from its previous name, Channel NewsAsia, is a Singaporean multinational news channel owned by Mediacorp, the country's state-owned media conglomerate. CNA broadcasts free-to-air domestically in Singapore, and internationally as a pay television channel to 29 territories ...
Channel 8 ( Chinese: 8頻道) is a Singaporean Mandarin -language free-to-air terrestrial television channel in Singapore, owned by state media conglomerate Mediacorp. The channel broadcasts general entertainment and news programming in the Mandarin language, including original and imported programming. The channel began a series of ...
17 August – Singapore's first donor breast milk bank is officially launched in KK Women's and Children's Hospital. 20 August – Singapore beat Malaysia 17-4 to win its 27th SEA Games gold medal in men's water polo. This is the country's longest winning streak in the sport. Several new plans are unveiled.
Yahoo! News is a news website that originated as an internet-based news aggregator by Yahoo!. The site was created by Yahoo! software engineer Brad Clawsie in August 1996. Articles originally came from news services such as the Associated Press, Reuters, Fox News, Al Jazeera, ABC News, USA Today, CNN and BBC News . In 2000, Yahoo!
2. Replacing some of the Challenger -class submarine, upgraded in 2016 till 2019, which includes optronic periscopes, combat management systems, sonars, countermeasure systems, digital data-links and attack capabilities which also allows the firing of new torpedoes and anti-ship missiles. [6] Challenger. Submarine. RSS Conqueror. RSS Chieftain.
BBC Newsday is a news programme on BBC News that was first broadcast on 13 June 2011. [1] The programme is normally hosted by Steve Lai or Mariko Oi in Singapore. The programme began as a dual-presented bulletin from Singapore and London. During important news stories, the programme has previously been broadcast from Washington with either Sumi ...
Caning of Michael Fay. In 1994, a court in Singapore sentenced an American teenager, Michael Fay, to be lashed six times with a cane for violating the Vandalism Act. This caused a temporary strain in relations between Singapore and the United States. [1]