16 January – BBC World Service Television was officially launched new name, new programme, new power, new transmitter, new vision, new screen and new office took place becomes BBC World on Thursday, 26 January 1995 at 7:00:00pm
GMT/Friday, 27 January 1995 at 3:00:00am
SGT was officially opening ceremony or grand opening to
internationalfree-to-airterrestrialnews channel.
BBC's news bureau in
Singapore is officially formal full grand opened took place with a new programme launched.
26 January – Officially opening ceremony or grand opening of
BBC World and
BBC Prime at 7:00:00pm
GMT/Friday, 27 January 1995 at 3:00:00am
SGT transformation from BBC World Service Television.
BBC's news bureau in
Singapore is officially formal full grand opened took place with a new programme launched.
February
26 February – Britain's oldest merchant bank
Barings Bank collapses due to Briton
Nick Leeson's trading activities, losing $1.4 billion by speculating on the
Singapore International Monetary Exchange, primarily using
futures contracts.[1] He was arrested on 23 November after fleeing Singapore for 272 days. Subsequently, Nick Leeson pleaded guilty to two charges out of three charges of forgery and eight charges of cheating and was sentenced to 6½ years in prison.[2]
March
1 March – The
Family Court is established to settle family disputes effectively.[3]
8 March – Briton
John Martin murdered South African Gerard George Lowe in River View Hotel, dismembered his body, and disposed the body parts in the
Singapore River. He is found guilty of murder and hanged on 19 April 1996.[5]
2 June – National Day Ceremony song "My People My Home" is unveiled and announced to be used for the 1995
National Day Parade. Since then, it was planned for the NDP to held at
Padang in every five years.
12 June – Dongli 88.3FM (present day
883Jia) is launched as a bilingual radio station by
SAFRA.[10]
23 June –
Singapore Cable Vision is officially launched as a
cable television provider, providing Singaporeans with more entertainment options. The whole cable system is completed in 1998.[11]
CityCab starts operations, formed from the merger of three taxi companies, Singapore Airport Bus Service Ltd (SABS), Singapore Bus Service Taxi Pte Ltd (SBS Taxi Pte Ltd) and Singapore Commuter Pte Ltd.[14]
The West Coast Barter Trade Centre closes due to declining use.[15]
6 August – The
UOB Plaza is officially opened. It joins
OUB Centre (present-day One Raffles Place) as Singapore's tallest buildings at 280 metres, until
Guoco Tower's completion in 2016, which is 290 metres.[17]
20 August – The
Selective En bloc Redevelopment Scheme (SERS) is announced to unlock economic value for residential buildings.[18] On the same day, the
Executive Condominium scheme is introduced to meet Singaporeans' aspirations for condominium living, which may be too expensive for some.[19]
22 August – Sites located at Boon Tiong Road and Tiong Bahru Road are selected for the first SERS project.[20]
30 August – The Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre (now
Suntec) is officially opened.[22]
31 August –
News Brief in Mandarin (新闻简报) aired its very final and last edition before becoming a full-fledged
Mandarin Chinese channel the next day while the Tamil News (Tamil Seithi) also aired its final edition for this channel beforehand before moving to the newly renamed
Prime 12 the next day.
Channel 12 was officially launching new name becomes Prime 12 after officially turned, shifted and switched language channel to
Malay and
Tamil channel after
Tamil programmes was officially moved from
TCS Channel 8 to
Prime 12 was officially full launched took place on tonight at 8:00:00pm
Singapore Time with the very first opening launching programme 12 By 12: TV12's Launch Show simulcast from
Premiere 12 after officially launched.
"Tamil News (Tamil Seithi)" was officially launched new extended duration times and time slot such as 30 minutes and aired daily from 7:30pm to 8:00pm
Singapore Time before Berita 12.
10 November – Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal is officially opened to enhance ferry links.[34]
13 November – The second series of the British children's animated series Budgie the Little Helicopter begins airing on
TCS Channel 5 after several months of airing in its country of origin. However the episodes were not transmitted in the right order as they when airing in the UK and were shown in a very slightly different order. The first two episodes of the second series of Budgie the Little Helicopter to be shown in Singapore were "Blown Up, Let Down" and "Wally Waddles In". However, the second series were later shown in the right episode order when the series was repeated on Eureka Learning Channel and
Kids Central.
29 December – Nanook the polar bear (of
Singapore Zoo) dies at the age of 18.
31 December – After Formatara Prima Sejati and Beijing Form Trading Industrial Corporation was officially closing ceremony "grand closing" in
Jakarta and
Beijing and was officially new location to new opening ceremony "grand opening" at new office, new power, new transmission, new building, new headquarters, new neighbouring, new tower, new icon and new complete new Form Building,
Tampines,
Singapore continued to Form Music Publication Pte Ltd, Form Records Co Ltd and Form Records Sdn Bhd based in
Singapore,
British Hong Kong and
Kuala Lumpur (capital of
Malaysia) after ABC English for Children Let's Learn About Volume 4 the end after the end farewell from clown (xiao chou) performance and Liu Tian Fu producer very final and last time so after Aunty Jo Child Care & Development Centre and
NTUC Pasir Ris Resort location area the end.
^Ministry of Information and the Arts, Singapore (1995).
Flor Contemplacion: The Facts of the Case. Singapore: Ministry of Information and the Arts, Singapore. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
^Sue-Ann Chia (11 March 2010), "Know the past to tackle the future", The Straits Times, p. B14. The first ever Act since 1965 originating from a private member's bill was the Roman Catholic Archbishop Bill introduced by P. Selvadurai and Chiang Hai Ding in 1974 and passed the following year as the Roman Catholic Archbishop Act (now
Cap. 375, 1985 Rev. Ed.). This was a
private act, not a public one: Chia, ibid. See also Walter Woon (28 June 1994), "Honor thy father and mother – or else", The Wall Street Journal, p. A18; "Govt gives backing to Parents Bill", The Straits Times, 27 July 1994; Walter Woon (11 August 1994), "Family matters", Far Eastern Economic Review, p. 30; "Parents maintenance bill passed", The Straits Times, 3 November 1995.