26 January – BBC World Service Television was officially relaunched, rebranded, restructured, and reorganized into BBC World on Thursday, 26 January 1995 at 7:00:00pm London Time (Friday, 27 January 1995 at 3:00:00am Singapore Time). The grand relaunching of BBC's news bureau in Singapore took place with the launch of a rebrand programme after officially removed the "Service Television" word.
26 February – Britain's oldest merchant bank, Barings Bank, collapsed due to Briton Nick Leeson's trading activities, losing $1.4 billion by speculating on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange, primarily using futures contracts.[1] He was arrested on 23 November after fleeing Singapore for 272 days. Subsequently, Nick Leeson plead guilty to two out of three charges of forgery and eight charges of cheating. He was sentenced to 6.5 years in prison.[2]
8 March – Briton John Martin Scripps murdered South African Gerard George Lowe in River View Hotel, dismembered his body, and disposed of the body parts in the Singapore River. He was found guilty of murder and hanged on 19 April 1996.[5]
17 March – Filipina domestic worker, Flor Contemplacion, is hanged on 4 May 1991 for the murder of fellow worker, Delia Maga, and her four-year-old charge, Nicholas Huang.[6]
2 June – The National Day Ceremony song "My People My Home" is unveiled and announced to be used for the 1995 National Day Parade. Since then, it was planned for the NDP to held at Padang in every five years.
12 June – Dongli 88.3FM (present day 883Jia) is launched as a bilingual radio station by SAFRA.[10]
23 June – Singapore Cable Vision is officially launched as a cable television provider, providing Singaporeans with more entertainment options. The whole cable system is completed in 1998, initially its coverage was limited to Tampines.[11]
1 July – CityCab starts operations, formed from the merger of three taxi companies: Singapore Airport Bus Service Ltd (SABS), Singapore Bus Service Taxi Pte Ltd (SBS Taxi Pte Ltd) and Singapore Commuter Pte Ltd.[14]
1 July – The West Coast Barter Trade Centre closes due to declining use.[15]
6 August – The UOB Plaza is officially opened. It joins OUB Centre (present-day One Raffles Place) as Singapore's tallest buildings at 280 metres, until Guoco Tower's completion in 2016, which is 290 metres.[17]
20 August – The Selective En bloc Redevelopment Scheme (SERS) is announced to unlock economic value for residential buildings.[18] On the same day, the Executive Condominium scheme is introduced to meet Singaporeans' aspirations for condominium living, which may be too expensive for some.[19]
22 August – Sites located at Boon Tiong Road and Tiong Bahru Road are selected for the first SERS project.[20]
30 August – The Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre (now Suntec) is officially opened.[22]
31 August – News Brief in Mandarin (新闻快讯) aired its very final and last edition before becoming a full-fledged Mandarin Chinese channel the next day while the Tamil News (Tamil Seithi) also aired its final edition for this channel beforehand before moving to the newly renamed Prime 12 the next day.
"Tamil News (Tamil Seithi)" was officially introduced, and launched new extended duration times and time slot such as 30 minutes and aired daily from 7:30pm to 8:00pm Singapore Time before Berita 12.
13 November – The second series of the British children's animated series Budgie the Little Helicopter begins airing on TCS Channel 5 after several months of airing in its country of origin. However, the episodes were not transmitted in the right order as they when airing in the UK and were shown in a very slightly different order. The first two episodes of the second series of Budgie the Little Helicopter to be shown in Singapore were "Blown Up, Let Down" and "Wally Waddles In". However, the second series were later shown in the right episode order when the series was repeated on Eureka Learning Channel and Kids Central.
After Formatara Prima Sejati and Beijing Form Trading Industrial Corporation was officially closing ceremony "grand closing" in Jakarta and Beijing and was officially new location to new opening ceremony "grand opening" at new office, new power, new transmission, new building, new headquarters, new neighbouring, new tower, new icon and new complete new Form Building, Tampines, Singapore continued to Form Music Publication Pte Ltd, Form Records Co Ltd and Form Records Sdn Bhd based in Singapore, British Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur (capital of Malaysia) after ABC English for Children Let's Learn About Volume 4 the end after the end farewell from clown (xiao chou) performance and Liu Tian Fu producer very final and last time so after Aunty Jo Child Care & Development Centre and NTUC Pasir Ris Resort location area the end.
^Ministry of Information and the Arts, Singapore (1995). Flor Contemplacion: The Facts of the Case. Singapore: Ministry of Information and the Arts, Singapore. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
^Sue-Ann Chia (11 March 2010), "Know the past to tackle the future", The Straits Times, p. B14. The first ever Act since 1965 originating from a private member's bill was the Roman Catholic Archbishop Bill introduced by P. Selvadurai and Chiang Hai Ding in 1974 and passed the following year as the Roman Catholic Archbishop Act (now Cap. 375, 1985 Rev. Ed.). This was a private act, not a public one: Chia, ibid. See also Walter Woon (28 June 1994), "Honor thy father and mother – or else", The Wall Street Journal, p. A18; "Govt gives backing to Parents Bill", The Straits Times, 27 July 1994; Walter Woon (11 August 1994), "Family matters", Far Eastern Economic Review, p. 30; "Parents maintenance bill passed", The Straits Times, 3 November 1995.
