1993 in Singapore

The following lists events that happened during 1993 in Singapore.

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Incumbents

Events

January
  • 1 January – Edusave is launched to provide all Singaporeans with quality education. The scheme also institutes awards for academic and non-academic achievements.[1]

February
  • 11 February – Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Secretariat is set up in Singapore.
  • 20 February –
    • NTUC Comfort announced that it will corporatise to help in its expansion plans.[2] The plan went through, which resulted in the formation of Comfort Transportation Pte Ltd later in June.[3]
    • The Senoko Incineration Plant is officially opened, making it the third incineration plant in Singapore.[4]
  • 21 February – The World of Aquarium closes due to bad business, less than two years after it reopened.[5] The building reopens as the Fort Canning Aquarium after a few months.[6]

March

April

May

June
  • 8 June – Gardenia's new bakery is officially opened.[11]
  • 12–20 June – Singapore hosts the 17th Southeast Asian Games. It clinched fourth place with a total of 164 medals.[12]

August

September

October
  • 3 October – The Great Singapore Workout is launched as part of the National Healthy Lifestyle Campaign, encouraging people to live healthily.[19]
  • 30 October – The Institute of Mental Health (then called Woodbridge Hospital) is officially opened in Hougang.[20]

November

December

Date unknown

Births

Deaths

References
  1. "Edusave". NLB. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
  2. "NTUC Comfort to corporatise to help expansion (page 1)". The Straits Times (retrieved from NLB). 21 February 1993. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
  3. "Milestones". ComfortDelGro Taxi. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
  4. "Official opening of Senoko Incineration Plant" (PDF). NAS. 20 February 1993. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  5. "Bad business forces aquarium to close". The Straits Times (retrieved from NLB). 9 February 1993. Retrieved 20 October 2019.
  6. "Van Kleef Aquarium". NLB. 14 May 1991. Retrieved 20 October 2019.
  7. "Bukit Batok to have Hospital for the Elderly". The Straits Times. 7 March 1993.
  8. "Medisave". NLB. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
  9. "Backgrounder: Milestones in cross-Straits relations over 30 years". Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
  10. "Shaw House (Lido)". NLB. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
  11. "Official Opening of Gardenia's new bakery" (PDF). NAS. 8 June 1993. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
  12. "Singapore hosts the 17th SEA Games". HistorySG. 2014. Retrieved 26 May 2020 – via NLB.
  13. Tan Lay Yuen (20 July 2017). "National Heritage Board". NLB. Archived from the original on 1 November 2019. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
  14. Matthew Pereira; Branden Pereira (6 August 1993). "MRT Trains collide at Clementi: 132 hurt". The Straits Times. pp. 1 & 25.
  15. Tan Lay Yuen (2016). "First MRT accident". NLB. Archived from the original on 31 January 2020. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
  16. Veronica Chee, Rajendran Munoo & Gladys Low (15 September 2017). "Elected presidency". Archived from the original on 20 April 2020. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
  17. "Ong Teng Cheong is the first elected president of Singapore". HistorySG. 2011. Archived from the original on 18 November 2019. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
  18. "Ngee Ann City". 21 September 1993. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
  19. "The Great Singapore Workout is launched". NLB. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
  20. "Opening of the new Woodbridge Hospital" (PDF). 30 October 1993. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
  21. "Singapore Telecom goes public". NLB. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
  22. "Commissioning of the Special Tactics and Rescue (STAR) Unit at the Police Training Camp" (PDF). NAS. 9 November 1993. Retrieved 9 September 2019.
  23. "Fire Safety Act". AGC. Retrieved 1 September 2019.
  24. "Opening of Ang Mo Kio Community Hospital" (PDF). 17 December 1993. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
  25. "A-Level Chemistry exam papers stolen, 238 students from 4 JCs affected". CNA. 23 February 2018. Archived from the original on 26 August 2019. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
  26. "John Le Cain". NLB. 4 July 2016. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
  27. "Georgette Chen". NLB. 24 January 2018. Retrieved 28 May 2020.
  28. Wang, Hui Ling (4 June 1993). "Former Speaker Dr Yeoh dies of lung cancer at 74". The Straits Times (retrieved from NLB). Retrieved 21 August 2022.
  29. "Tay Eng Soon". NLB. 22 March 2016. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  30. "John Chia Keng Hock". NLB. 2011. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
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