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2024 in Singapore

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The following lists events that happened during 2024 in the Republic of Singapore.

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January

February

March

April

May

June

July

  • 19 July – Thirty-six people are rescued after fires break out on board the São Tomé and Príncipe-flagged tanker Ceres I and Singapore-flagged tanker Hafnia Nile following a collision near Pedra Branca. The remaining 26 Ceres I crew members remain on board to conduct fire-fighting operations.[43]
  • 21 July – The new Tengah Bus Interchange is opened.[44][45]
  • 30 July – 60 employees of ByteDance are sickened following an outbreak of gastroenteritis at the company's offices in the Central Business District that is blamed on suspected food poisoning.[46] The number increases to 130 the next day, with two caterers present that day having their operations suspended.[47]

August

  • 4–5 August – The Ministry of Education removes Mobile Guardian from all iPads and Chromebooks of secondary students after 13,000 students were affected by a global security breach involving Mobile Guardian.[48]
  • 7 August – The Good Samaritan Food Donation Bill, tabled by Member of Parliament Louis Ng, is passed to protect donors from criminal or civil liability for any death or personal injury resulting from consuming donated food, provided certain conditions to ensure food safety and hygiene are met.[49]
  • 9 August – Kitefoiler Maximilian Maeder wins bronze at the Paris 2024 Olympics, the only medal won by Singapore at the 2024 Olympics.[50]
  • 15 August – Teck Lee LRT station on the Punggol LRT line opens 19 years after the line first started.[51]
  • 18 August – At the National Day Rally, Prime Minister Lawrence Wong announces several policy initiatives, including Singapore's first-ever unemployment support scheme,[52] a revamp of the Gifted Education Programme,[53] enhanced shared parental leave entitlements,[54] and increased support for build-to-order flat applicants - with more priority given to singles and additional grants for low-income households.[55] He also unveils plans for Sports Hub's future development, featuring a new 18,000-seat indoor stadium, pedestrianised roads, a community boulevard, and the consolidation of sport facilities, such as the integration of Singapore Sports School and training centres for national athletes.[56]
  • 29 August – The Urban Redevelopment Authority grants GMC Property permission to add four storeys to the conserved Golden Mile Complex and to construct a 45-storey condominium tower next to the original building.[57]

September

  • 1 September –
    • The Jurong West Bus Package operations is handed over to SMRT Corporation from SBS Transit spanning Boon Lay Bus Interchanges.[58]
    • The blanket ban on HDB residents keeping cats is relaxed, thus legally allowing residents living in HDB flats to keep cats, subject to certain conditions.[59]
  • 5 September – Woodleigh Village Hawker Centre, in the Bidadari housing estate, opens.[60]
  • 8 September – One Punggol is officially opened as the second integrated lifestyle community hub in Singapore.[61]
  • 9 September – The Energy Transition Measures and Other Amendments Bill is passed, giving Energy Market Authority the authority to ration power during emergencies, as well as setting up a fund to support the city-state's clean energy transition, with an initial injection of S$5 billion.[62]
  • 11–13 September – Pope Francis visits Singapore, the second time a pope has visited the country since Pope John Paul II in 1986.[63]
  • 15 September – The Jurong West Bus Package operations is handed over to SMRT Corporation from SBS Transit spanning Joo Koon Bus Interchange, Tuas Bus Terminal and Soon Lee Bus Depot.[58][64]
  • 24 September –
  • 25 September – Train services on the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) East–West line (EWL) are disrupted when a faulty Kawasaki C151 train causes a power trip and damaged the track and equipment along the stretch between the Clementi and Dover stations. This results in the suspension of regular services between the Boon Lay and Queenstown stations.[67] Services fully resume on 1 October.[68]
  • 30 September – Passport-less clearance is fully implemented in all four terminals of Changi Airport. Arriving and departing Singapore residents, and departing foreign visitors, can clear immigration by using facial and iris biometrics.[69]

October

  • 3 October – S. Iswaran is sentenced to a year of imprisonment for receiving illegal gifts.[70]
  • 5 October –
  • 9 October – Lee Wei Ling, the daughter of the first Prime Minister of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, dies at 69.[73]
  • 14 October – The Government blocks the sale of Income Insurance's stake to Allianz as it was assessed not to be in the public interest. Insurance laws will subsequently be tightened to scrutinise transactions involving insurance cooperatives or those with a history of being one.[74]
  • 15 October – The Elections (Integrity of Online Advertising) (Amendment) Bill is passed, prohibiting the publication of election candidates deepfakes that realistically depict a candidate saying or doing something that they did not say or do.[75]
  • 18 October – Minister for Law and Home Affairs K. Shanmugam confirms that a 17 year old youth had been arrested under the Internal Security Act for planning to attack non-Muslims in Tampines.[76]
  • 20 October – An oil leak from a land-based pipeline belonging to Shell between Bukom Island and Bukom Kecil affects waters off Singapore.[77][78]
  • 22 October –
    • Lee Hsien Yang, the youngest son of Lee Kuan Yew, says in a Facebook post that he was granted political asylum in the United Kingdom after seeking asylum protection there in 2022.[79]
    • The Energy Market Authority announces it granted conditional approval to Sun Cable to import 1.75 GW of low-carbon electricity from Australia's Northern Territory to Singapore. The project is expected to come online after 2035.[80]
    • The Ministry of Education (MOE) announces that construction of the Goh Keng Swee Centre for Education will start in 2025, with completion by 2029. The 30-storey Centre was first announced by then-Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at the 2010 National Day Rally, and seeks to consolidate all of MOE's training facilities into a single location, allowing for synergies between different departments and freeing up land for other uses. The MOE Heritage Centre will also be relocated to this complex.[81][82][83]
  • 27 October – Singapore wins the 2024 Asian Netball Championship, defeating the reigning champion Sri Lanka.[84]
  • 28 October –
  • 29 October – Chinese state-owned plane manufacturer COMAC opens an office in Singapore.[87]
  • 30 October – Five Singapore-based firms are sanctioned by the US for enabling Russia's war effort.[88]

November

  • 2 November – The Early Childhood Development Agency announces that it will work with five anchor operators to open up nearly 40,000 new infant and childcare places from 2025 to 2029.[89]
  • 4 November – The film Small Hours of the Night, inspired by Tan Chay Wa's tombstone trial, is denied classification by IMDA, and as a result is barred from public screenings during the upcoming 2024 Singapore International Film Festival.[90][91]
  • 9 November – A parish priest is stabbed by a Sinhalese man at Saint Joseph's Church, Bukit Timah during a communion.[92]
  • 11 November –
    • The Ministry of Health and the Singapore Medical Council announces that Singapore will recognize nine additional medical schools in Australia, the United Kingdom, and Ireland.[93]
    • Singapore's first biennial transparency report, submitted to the UN before the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference, projects the country's emissions will peak at 64.43 million tonnes in 2028.[94]
  • 12 November – The Community Disputes Resolution (Amendment) Bill is passed, setting up a new government unit, the Community Relations Unit (CRU), to tackle severe noise and hoarding cases.[95]
  • 13 November –
    • The expanded Shoalwater Bay Military Training Area, jointly developed by Singapore and Australia for training conducted by SAF and ADF, is officially opened.[96]
    • Parliament passes amendments to the Child Development Co-Savings Act, extending government-paid parental leave by an additional 10 weeks, bringing the total to 30 weeks by April 1, 2026.[97]
  • 15 November
    • Resorts World Sentosa starts construction on their new waterfront attractions, with completion by 2030. It will consist of a 88-metre tall light sculpture, two new luxury hotels and a podium with new shops to be set up.[98][99]
    • The Singapore Civil Defence Force starts construction of their Marine Division headquarters on Pulau Brani, which will be completed by March 2026. Plans to boost the Division's capabilities are also announced, with an increase from six firefighting vessels to 10 by 2029, and from four to six marine bases by 2035.[100][101][102]
  • 16 November –
  • 17 November – Heavy rain causes a flash flood along Ophir Road.[105]
  • 18 November –
    • Hin Leong founder Lim Oon Kuin is sentenced to seventeen years and six months of jail for three charges of fraud and forgery.[106]
    • The Gambling Regulatory Authority renews the casino license of Resorts World Sentosa for two years, instead of the usual three years, citing unsatisfactory tourism performance during the three-year period between 2021 and 2023.[107]
    • The police announced that 15 suspects involved in the S$3 billion money-laundering case that fled earlier have agreed to surrender about S$1.85 billion in assets and be banned from returning to Singapore. Two other suspects remain under investigation.[108]
  • 21 November – The police and the SAF remove an unexploded World War II bomb from Keppel Club.[109]
  • 22 November –
  • 23 November – Travellers crossing the Woodlands Checkpoint and Tuas Checkpoint by bus are now able to clear immigration using QR codes.[112]
  • 24 November – The People's Action Party elects its 38th central executive committee.[113]
  • 25 November–12 December – The World Chess Championship 2024 is held in Singapore.[114]
  • 25 November – The Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment announces that, as a measure to contain dengue, the release of Wolbachia-carrying male mosquitoes will reach 50% of households by 2026.[115]
  • 28 November –
    • A joint venture between SBS Transit and RATP Dev Asia Pacific is appointed the operator of the Jurong Region MRT line for an initial nine years, with a further two-year option. This marks the first introduction of a foreign operator to Singapore's local rail industry. The operator for the Cross Island MRT line will be decided later.[116]
    • The Ministry of Digital Development and Information says in a statement that since 26 November, more than 100 civil servants from 31 government agencies, including 12 political office-holders, have received extortionary e-mail containing fake compromising photos of themselves. This comes after the Ministry of Health reported that staff from public healthcare institutions have been receiving similar e-mails.[117]

December

  • 1 December –
  • 2 December – The Monetary Authority of Singapore imposes a S$2.4 million civil penalty on JPMorgan Chase over misconduct by its relationship managers.[120]
  • 4 December – The kebaya is recognised as part of UNESCO's Intangible Heritage list, in collaboration with Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Brunei.[121]
  • 10 December – Punggol Coast MRT station under the North East Line is opened and situated outside SIT's Digital Campus.[122]
  • 14 December – The government announces that it intends to change the practice of masking NRIC numbers after concerns were raised after the new Bizfile portal showing people's details for free in its search results.[123]
  • 16 December – The Shared Responsibility Framework, announced by MAS and IMDA, are implemented. The framework assigns financial institutions and telecommunication companies relevant duties to mitigate phishing scams, and sets expectations of payouts to scam victims where these duties are breached.[124][125]
  • 17 December – Real estate and healthcare firm Perennial Holdings becomes the first foreign company to wholly own a private tertiary general hospital in China, after its hospital in Tianjin city was given approval by Chinese authorities.[126]
  • 23 December – Singapore Post terminates its group chief executive, group chief financial officier and chief executive of its international business unit, citing "grossly negligent behaviour in their handling of internal investigations".[127]
  • 31 December –
    • Commemorations for SG60 begin.[128]
    • Ridership on Singapore's MRT and LRT lines in 2024 surpasses pre-COVID-19 levels for the first time.[129]
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