2007 in Singapore

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Incumbents

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.^[1]
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.
25 October – Singapore Airlines makes its first commercial flight of the Airbus A380.
11 November – MediaCorp officially roll out its MediaCorp TV HD5 television signal.
18 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 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.

4 February – 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.

24 June – Thaddeus Cheong Wing Kit, a triathlete, dies after completing a triathlon, which was part of the SEA Games selection trial. He was 17.
9 November – 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

2007 in Asia

Sovereign states	Afghanistan Armenia Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Cambodia China Cyprus East Timor (Timor-Leste) Egypt Georgia India Indonesia Iran Iraq Israel Japan Jordan Kazakhstan North Korea South Korea Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Malaysia Maldives Mongolia Myanmar Nepal Oman Pakistan Philippines Qatar Russia Saudi Arabia Singapore Sri Lanka Syria Tajikistan Thailand Turkey Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Vietnam Yemen

States with limited recognition	Abkhazia Nagorno-Karabakh Northern Cyprus Palestine South Ossetia Taiwan

Dependencies and other territories	British Indian Ocean Territory Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Hong Kong Macau

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