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Tan's second poetry collection, Driving Into Rain (1998), won the Merit award at the Singapore Literature Prize 1997. [2] His second collection seeks to project the poet's relationship with the larger world [ 2 ] and according to poet Dr Cyril Wong , "regularly stops short of divulging enough about the poet’s persona for readers to enter a ...
The Singapore Tiger Standard, an English morning daily newspaper, was accused as "anti-Merdeka" by S. Rajaratnam, [7] and was closed in 1959 after the People's Action Party came to power. [ 8 ] In 1971, the Government crackdown on newspapers perceived to be under foreign influence or with subversive tendencies; saw the closing of The Eastern ...
The Straits Times (also known informally by its abbreviation ST) is a Singaporean daily English-language newspaper owned by the SPH Media Trust. [2] [3] [4] Established on 15 July 1845, it is the most-widely circulated newspaper in the country and has a significant regional audience.
In January 2011 he became the president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei. [1] Pope Francis accepted Bishop Tan's resignation from office (due to reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75) on 19 November 2015. Pope Francis appointed Bishop Anthony Bernard Paul to succeed him. [2]
The STI has a history dating back to its founding in 1966. [1] Following a major sectoral re-classification of listed companies by the Singapore Exchange, which saw the removal of the "industrials" category, the STI replaced the previous Straits Times Industrials Index (abbreviation: STII) and began trading on 31 August 1998 at 885.26 points, in continuation of where the STII left off.
Channel 5 is an English-language free-to-air terrestrial television channel in Singapore, owned by state media conglomerate Mediacorp.The channel primarily airs English language programming made in Singapore, and imported programmes from other nations such as the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and Philippines, broadcasting news (as News Tonight) and entertainment from a variety of ...
2 April – Joseph Schooling, who won Singapore's first ever Olympic gold medal, retires from swimming at 28. [25]15 April – Lee Hsien Loong announces his resignation as the Prime Minister of Singapore effective on 15 May 2024, paving the way for the assumption of Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Lawrence Wong as the next Prime Minister of Singapore.
As of 2000, it remains the largest corporate collapse in Singapore's history, and the only instance where the SES had to be unexpectedly closed. [ 1 ] In the aftermath of the collapse, key people in the company such as Peter Tham , Tan Kok Liang , and Tan Koon Swan were prosecuted and given varying jail sentences.