2007

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 .