2007 in Singapore

Singapore in 2007

Events

Acquiring of hosting rights for 2008 F1 13th ASEAN Summit Third East Asia Summit Death of triathlete Thaddeus Cheong

Others

Current events in Singapore

See also: 2006 in Singapore | Other events of 2007 | 2008 in Singapore | List of years in Singapore

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Events

• 12 May - Singapore acquires Formula One rights to host a leg of the Formula One 2008 World Championship race series in September or October 2008.
• 28 June - The University of New South Wales Asia campus in Singapore closed.
• 30 June - The National Stadium held its official closing ceremony.
• 1 July - The Goods and Services Tax was raised from 5% to 7%.
• 20 July - SingTel's mio TV was launched commercially.
• 9 August - Singapore celebrates her 42nd (XLII) national day, with her NDP 2007 held at the Marina Bay Floating Stadium.
• 15 October - Singapore Airlines takes delivery of the 1st Airbus A380 superjumbo jet.
• 11 November - MediaCorp officially roll out its MediaCorp TV HD5 television signal.
• 18 November to 22 November - Singapore hosted the 13th ASEAN Summit and Third East Asia Summit.
• 19 November - Singapore was shortlisted as a candidate city to host the 2010 Youth Olympics.
• 24 November - A group of 5 national dragonboaters drowns in a dragonboating competition in Cambodia's Tonle Sap river.
• 6 December to 15 December - Team Singapore participated in the 2007 Southeast Asian Games in Thailand and won 43 gold, 43 silver and 41 bronze medals.
• 16 December - Singapore Idol Hady Mirza became the 1st Asian Idol.

Sports

• February 4 - Singapore won the 2007 ASEAN Football Championship, thereby defending their championship.
• November - The national football team of Singapore manages to get into the third round of the 2010 World Cup qualifiers of the Asian qualifying section.
• 28 December - Tennis queen Maria Sharapova arrives in Singapore for an exhibition match.

Deaths

• June 24 - Thaddeus Cheong Wing Kit, a triathlete, dies after completing a triathlon, which was part of the SEA Games selection trial. He was 17.
• November 9 - Sim Kee Boon, a former civil service head once credited for turning Singapore Changi Airport into a 'world-class airport', and who played a key role in the success of the airport

2007 Malaysian and Singaporean events by month

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