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The days observed as general public holidays in Singapore are declared in the schedule to the Holidays Act. According to the Ministry of Manpower, which issues a yearly list of the dates on which public holidays fall, the holidays were "chosen and agreed upon after close consultation with different community and religious leaders in Singapore".
National Day, sometimes known outside of Singapore as Independence Day, is a major public holiday in Singapore which commemorates Singapore's independence from Malaysia on 9 August 1965, establishing an independent and sovereign Republic of Singapore. This holiday features the National Day Parade (NDP), a National Day Message by the Prime ...
3 and 5–6 April – Bruno Mars ' Bruno Mars Live in Singapore tour is held at the National Stadium. [18] [19] 15 April – Lee Hsien Loong announces his resignation as the 3rd Prime Minister of Singapore effective on 15 May 2024, paving the way for the assumption of Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Lawrence Wong as the 4th Prime ...
Juneteenth will be marked on Wednesday, June 19, 2024. Unlike other federal holidays, such as Memorial Day and Labor Day, that are observed on a specific day of the week, Juneteenth is celebrated ...
The Government of Singapore is defined by the Constitution of the Republic of Singapore to consist of the President and the Executive. Executive authority of Singapore is vested in the President but exercised on the advice of the Cabinet led by the Prime Minister. The President, acting as the Head of State, may only act in their discretion in ...
Singapore National Pledge. February 1966. (first version) “We, as citizens of Singapore, pledge ourselves to forget differences of race, language or religion and become one united people; to build a democratic society where justice and equality will prevail and where we will seek happiness and progress by helping one another.”.
Lawrence Wong. PAP. General elections are due to be held in Singapore no later than 23 November 2025 to determine the composition of the fifteenth Singaporean Parliament. The elections will be the nineteenth in Singapore since 1948 and the fourteenth since independence . For the first time since the 2006 general election, Lee Hsien Loong will ...
Malaysia (1964) Singapore is scheduled to compete at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. It will be the nation's eighteenth appearance at the Summer Olympics since its debut at the 1948 Games. Singapore has competed in every edition since except 1964 in Tokyo, as part of Malaysia team, and 1980 in Moscow, because ...