1994 in Singapore

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The following lists events that happened during 1994 in Singapore.

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

• 1 January
  • The Singapore Broadcasting Corporation (SBC) relaunches SBC 5 as Channel 5, with a fully English-language schedule, and Malay programming migrated to SBC 12.^[1]
  • Singapore International Television began broadcasting an hour of daily programming on a satellite transponder.^[2]
• 4 January - The Straits Times Industrials Index hits a then-record high of 2471.90 points.^[3]
• 22 January – Junction 8 mall is officially opened.^[4]

• 1 February - Radio Singapore International (RSI) is launched as Singapore's first international shortwave radio station.^[5]

• 2 March – The extension of the CISCO headquarters starts construction. When completed, it will have cash processing facilities and a computer disaster recovery centre.^[6]
• 8 March – The first 2G networks are launched in Singapore.^[7]
• 13 March – The National Service Resort and Country Club is officially opened.^[8]
• 26 March – Singapore wins the bid to host the 1999 Rotary Convention.^[9]

• 1 April – The Goods and Services Tax (GST) is first introduced with a tax rate of 3%.^[10]

• 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.^[11]
• 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.^[11]
• 26 May – The Night Safari is officially opened.^[12]
• 28 May — Chinese and Tamil-language channel SBC 8 rebrands as Channel 8, as part of a repositioning to cater the channel to "the HDB homeland".^[13]
• 31 May – The Great Singapore Sale is launched.

• 6 June – Known as the Oriental Hotel Murder, 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.

• 1 July – SingTel launches SingNet, Singapore's first ISP.^[14]
• 21 July – The design for the new arts centre is unveiled, with the name of the facility called the Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay, which will be finished by 2000. It opened in 2002.^[15]

• 29 August – Channel 5 premieres AM Singapore, Singapore's first English-language breakfast programme.

• 1 September – SingTel launched its fully digitalised telecom network.^[16]
• 2 September – Tuas Naval Base is officially opened.^[17]
• 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 drug trafficking.^[18]
  • SBC launches its new Chinese adult contemporary radio station Love 972.

• 1 October
  • The Singapore Broadcasting Corporation is privatized and restructured as the state-owned holding company Singapore International Media (SIM). SIM in turn consists of four state-owned enterprises; the Television Corporation of Singapore (TCS, owner of Channel 5 and 8), Singapore Television Twelve (TV12, owner of Channel 12), Radio Corporation of Singapore (RCS), and SIM Communications.^[19]
  • The Singapore Broadcasting Authority is formed.^[20][21]
• 12 October - Channel 5 premieres Singapore's first domestic English-language serial drama, Masters of the Sea.
• 15 October – Madam Mona Koh, 46, a mamasan, survives two gunshot wounds at Katong People's Complex.^[22]
• 22 October - The last National Registration Identity Card (NRIC) replacement exercise takes place in Choa Chu Kang Community Club, marking the end of a three-year replacement programme. For those who did not re-register yet, a grace period will be given until 1995. From 1 January 1996, the old laminated NRICs will be invalid.^[23]
• 31 October to 3 November – A three-day debate on ministerial salaries ensues.^[24][25] Eventually, the white paper is approved on 3 November.^[26]
• 31 October – Power98FM is launched by SAFRA.

• November – Tiong Bahru Plaza opens to the public.
• 21 November – The Singapore People's Party is formed after several members broke off from the Singapore Democratic Party.^[27]
• 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.^[28] He was given a field promotion to the rank of Station Inspector posthumously.^[29]

• The Singapore Heart Centre starts operations.^[30]

• 1 January – Carrie Wong, television actress
• 8 January - Shawn Tok, singer-actor
• 1 October - Linying, the singer for NDP 2021 theme song 'The Road Ahead'.
• 5 November – Timothee Yap, national sprinter.
• 13 November – Andrew Tang, racing driver.^[31]

• 24 January – F. A. Chua – Supreme Court Judge (b. 1913).^[32]
• 11 February – Gog Sing Hooi – Pioneer watercolour painter (b. 1933).^[33]
• 24 August – Ee Peng Liang – Businessman and philanthropist (b. 1913).^[34]
• 7 March – P. V. Sarma, leader of the Malayan National Liberation League, allowed back to Singapore in 1991 (b. 1917).^[35]
• 8 November – Kwek Hong Png – Founder of Hong Leong Group (b. 1913).^[36]
• 10 December – Jamit Singh – Trade unionist (b. 1929).^[37]