1. Incumbents

2. Events
    January  February  March  May  June  August  October  November  December 

3. Deaths

4. References

The following lists events that happened during 2013 in the Republic of Singapore.

Incumbents

• President: Tony Tan Keng Yam
• Prime Minister: Lee Hsien Loong

Events

January

• 10 January - Nearly seven hours of North East Line train disruption happened from HarbourFront MRT Station to Outram Park MRT Station.^[1]
• 21 January – MediaCorp Channel NewsAsia began broadcasting 24 hours daily.
• 26 January - Lee Li Lian, representing the main opposition of Workers' Party, was elected as Member-of-Parliament (MP) for Punggol East Single Member Constituency as a result of winning the 2013 Punggol East by-election, succeeding the ruling People's Action Party's MP Michael Palmer, who earlier vacated his seat on 12 December last year because of a extramarital affair.

February

• 8 February – The Parliament was convened in a special Parliamentary session to debate over the controversial Population White Paper (a White Paper focusing on population) which was released earlier on January.
• 10 February – The MediaCorp TV celebrates its 50-year anniversary it was established on 1963 (before on 16 February).
• 19 February – Singapore and Malaysia agrees to build the high-speed rail link between the city-state island republic and mainland towards Kuala Lumpur.

March

• 31 March – The MediaCorp TV Channel 5 celebrates its 50-year anniversary it was established on 1963 (before on 2 April).

May

• 15 May – City Harvest Church Criminal Breach of Trust Case: A 140 day-long trial involving Kong Hee and five other pastors, who were arrested on June 2012 over alleged misuse of funds, began.
• 29 May – 2013 dengue outbreak in Singapore: A man from Hougang dies from dengue shock syndrome; it was its first reported death case relating to dengue in Singapore^[2].

June

• Mid-June: 2013 Southeast Asian haze: Singapore saw its worst haze since the 1997 haze:
  • 17 June: At about 10pm, the Pollutant Standards Index levels reading reached an unhealthy range of 155 after air quality plummeted into the "Unhealthy" range at 2pm.
  • 19 June – At about 2pm, the 3-hour PSI reading set an all-time high record of 321 in the Hazardous range (the first time the level was reached), surpassing the previous record of 226 during the 1997 haze.^[3]
  • 20 June – At about 1pm, the 3-hour PSI reading reaches 371,^[4] but on the day later, the reading reached a peak of 401.^[5]
• 25 June - The third series of Singapore's coins is released.^[6] However, old coins from the 1st and 2nd series remain legal tender.^[7]

August

• 5 August – 2013 dengue outbreak in Singapore: Its number of reported dengue cases, about 14,000 at the time (including six deaths), surpassed the former record of 14,209 cases from 2005; it became the worst epidemic case of dengue in Singapore, having a total 22,318 cases (including eight deaths) logged at the end of the year.^[8]

October

• October to November - 2013 Singapore cyberattacks: Many of the cyberattacks occurred in Singapore, a YouTube video, made of Anonymus Hacker Group's The Messiah threatening the Singapore government. Affected websites including the PAP Community Foundation, the Ang Mo Kio Town Council page (a town council led by the Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong), Yahoo! Singapore and Seletar Airport.
• 7 October - Veteran National football player and coach, V. Sundramoorthy resigned as LionsXII and National U-23 coach. He was replaced by Fandi Ahmad on 7 December.^[9][10]

November

• 12 November - 2013 Singapore cyberattacks: James Raj, the mastermind who was alleged "The Messiah", was charged in Singapore court.^[11]
• 24 November – The MediaCorp TV Channel 8 celebrates its 50-year anniversary it was established on 1963 (before on 23 November).

December

• 8 December - 2013 Little India riots: A riot broke out on the streets of Little India, with 27 arrests, many injuries and several emergency vehicles overturned. One bus front windscreen was smashed. This was the second riot in post-independence Singapore, after the race riots in 1969.
• 18 December - A near four-hour disruption of services for Circle MRT Line for 23 out of 28 stations ^[12]
• 22 December - Opening of the Downtown MRT Line Stage 1, stretching from Bugis MRT Station to Bayfront and Chinatown MRT Station
• 29 December - Opening of the Marina Coastal Expressway (MCE), Singapore first undersea expressway.

Deaths

• 20 April – Huang Wenyong – Malaysian-born Singaporean MediaCorp artiste

References

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