1994 in Singapore

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The following lists events that happened during 1994 in Singapore.

Incumbents

• President: Ong Teng Cheong
• Prime Minister: Goh Chok Tong

Events

• 1 January
  • SBC-5 revamp the channel logo for a new look to first channel in Singapore to became the full English channel to become news programmes of the broadcast after three weekday news programmes and two weekend news programmes.
    • Opening ceremony of "News 5 Today", a first English weekday noon news programme on SBC-5 by the live telecast aired on Monday to Friday at 12:00 SST was opening day on Monday, 3 January 1994.
    • Opening ceremony of "News 5 at Seven" is an English flagship daily evening news programmes on SBC-5 by the live telecast aired daily at 19:00 SST.
    • News in English was renamed "News 5 Tonight" is an English flagship daily evening news programmes on SBC-5 by the live telecast aired daily at 22:30 SST.
  • Malay programmes were transferred from SBC-5 to SBC-12.
• 1 February
  • SBC-12 revamp the channel logo for a new look
  • Radio Singapore International (RSI) is a first international shortwave radio station.
• 5 May – United States media reports on the caning incident of American teenager Michael P. Fay who was convicted for vandalism.
• 21 May – A Singapore Police Force officer, Corporal Hoi Kim Heng, 24, dies after being stabbed in the neck during the attempted arrest of drug abuser Soh Loo Ban. His companion, Corporal Tan Huang Yee, recovers from his injuries.
• 23 May – Corporal Tan Huang Yee is given a rare field promotion to the rank of sergeant, while Corporal Hoi Kim Heng is conferred the same award posthumously.
• 29 May
  • SBC-8 revamp the channel logo for a new look.
  • Opening ceremony of "News Brief in Mandarin (新闻简报)" is a 10-minutes of the Chinese evening brief news programmes on SBC-8 by the live telecast aired daily at 18:50 SST.
  • News in Chinese was renamed as "News in Mandarin (第八新闻)" is a Chinese flagship daily evening news programmes on SBC-8 by the live telecast aired daily at 22:00 SST.
• 6 June – A Japanese tourist, Madam Fujii Isae, 49, is found murdered in her hotel room at the Oriental Hotel.
• 9 June – The biggest single robbery to strike a private home occurs at a property in Bukit Timah, in which S$6 million worth of valuables were stolen. All five men involved in the armed robbery were subsequently arrested.
• 29 August - Opening ceremony of "AM Singapore", an English first flagship weekday breakfast programmes on SBC-5 by the live telecast aired on Monday to Friday at 7:00 SST.
• 16 September – A sergeant with the Republic of Singapore Navy, Chong Peh Choong, 26, kills his three children aged between 3 and 10 before failing in his attempts to kill his wife and himself. He was jailed for life.
• 23 September – Dutchman Johannes van Damme is executed for drugs trafficking.^[1]
• 30 September - SBC officially closing ceremony on 1 October 1994 as station closedown on all television channel by SBC-8 and SBC-12 at 00:30 SST and SBC-5 at 03:05 SST.
• 1 October - SBC was privatised into a new holding company's Singapore International Media (SIM Group of Companies) with 3-national mass media digital technology (2-free-to-air terrestrial television, 1-social media internet telecommunication and 1-radio station) such as Television Corporation of Singapore (TCS), Radio Corporation of Singapore (RCS), SIM Communications and Singapore Television Twelve (STV12).
• 15 October – Madam Mona Koh, 46, a mamasan, survives two gunshot wounds at Katong People's Complex.
• 30 November – Police officer Senior Staff Sergeant Boo Tiang Huat, 47, dies after sustaining an axe wound to the head while conducting routine vehicular inspection at Newton Road. He was given a field promotion to the rank of Station Inspector posthumously.
• 1 December
  • China Entertainment Television Broadcasts Limited was founded in Kowloon on Thursday, 1 December 1994 by Robert Chua, a Singaporean president, main director, chairman and chief executive officer. The slogan/motto/tagline/crest of arms "No Sex, No Violence, No News" (Chinese: "無色情、無暴力、無新聞") whose shares are 100% full owned by Television Corporation of Singapore and STAR TV with programming similar to that of STAR TV.
  • CETV Family Channel was test of transmission at 12:00 HKT/SST was started of the 12-hour transmissions from 12:00 until 00:00 HKT/SST on daily after 100-days of the test of transmissions form 1 December 1994 until 10 March 1995 is an originally test of transmission by airing music video and STAR TV/Television Corporation of Singapore simulcast entertainment programmes by the securing carriage on SCV in Singapore.

Births

• 13 November - Andrew Tang, racing driver

References