Major events of this period

Singapore Dream: site map Cyberguides' pages Moses’ start page Chee Beng’s start page Nura’s start page Leslie’s start page Headlines ECONOMY Three steps to boost economy (The Straits Times, Jul 15, 1975) Recession years ‘Matchmaking’ mission to US (The Straits Times, Feb 2, 1979) Restructuring of economy The 8 strategic thrusts in Republic's long-term economic growth plan (The Straits Times, Oct 14, 1991) Singapore’s Strategic Economic Plan SM: S'poreans must now build up external economy (The Straits Times, Nov 16, 1992) Regionalisation Singapore way ahead of other NIEs: Survey (The Straits Times, Sep 7, 1994) Becoming a Newly Industrialised Economy R&D spending up 18% to $1.2b in 1994: NSTB survey (The Straits Times, Jan 23, 1996) Emphasis on R&D EDUCATION Lee’s plea: use Mandarin (The Straits Times, Sep 8, 1979) Speak Mandarin campaign The chance for more to climb academic ladder (The Straits Times, Aug 17, 1980) Relaxing of entry requirements to schools Education in high gear (The Straits Times, Feb 3, 1986) Improving the education system New law paving way for govt schools to go independent to be introduced this year (The Straits Times, Sep 3, 1989) Independent schools School starts today along with new education schemes (The Straits Times, Jan 2, 1992) Streaming SIM to become third, private university (The Straits Times, Apr 23, 1997) Singapore’s universities HOUSING Future HDB estates to have own identity (The Straits Times, Feb 2, 1979) The development of new towns HDB starts its new booking system (The Straits Times, Jul 4, 1989) Booking system Town councils for better estates (The Straits Times, Sep 26, 1989) Town councils 90,000 HDB flats to be built over next 5 years (The Straits Times, Dec 31, 1991) Demand for larger flat types HDB upgrading: Work on six neighbourhoods starts from next week (The Straits Times, Feb 4, 1993) Upgrading New queueing system for HDB flat applicants (The Straits Times, Aug 27, 1994) Queueing system Housing schemes help 4,000 families (The Straits Times, Mar 1, 1995) For the poor LIFE All is set for Dollar Day tomorrow (The Straits Times, Jun 11, 1967) The ‘Sing’ dollar SIA’s golden bird takes off at dawn (The Straits Times, Oct 2, 1972) Singapore Airlines 48 die in ship blast horror (The Straits Times, Oct 13, 1978) The Jurong Shipyard disaster Seven die as two cable cars plunge into sea (The Sunday Times, Jan 30, 1983) Cable car disaster What makes a good paper (The Straits Times, Jul 13, 1984) The merger of newspapers 100 still trapped (The Sunday Times, Mar 16, 1986) The Hotel New World disaster 74,000 go on MRT fun rides (The Straits Times, Nov 9, 1987) MRT SAF has full capabilities and strength: Dr Yeo (The Straits Times, Jul 1, 1992) Defence First-time ad by SDU and SDS for new members in newspaper (The Straits Times, Feb 9, 1996) Family planning SSO to get new music director in new year (The Straits Times, Nov 8, 1996) Singapore Symphony Orchestra Run fast, and officer's job is yours (The Straits Times, Nov 24, 1997) SAF Sweep ticket sales will fund new arts centre (The Straits Times, Nov 26, 1997) Singapore Arts Centre POLITICS Walk-over (The Sunday Times, Feb 18, 1968) 1968 general elections Devan to be president (The Straits Times, Oct 13, 1981) Singapore presidents I’ll start work right away, says Jeya (New Nation, Nov 2, 1981) Anson by-election Plan to launch Team MPs in next election tabled (Business Times, Dec 1, 1987) Group Representation Constituencies S’pore’s change in leadership will only be in style and tone: BG Lee (The Straits Times, Nov 9, 1989) Goh Chok Tong sworn in as Prime Minister Thank you, President Wee (The Straits Times, Sep 1, 1993) President Wee Kim Wee How I do my job: President Ong (The Straits Times, Sep 2, 1993) President Ong Teng Cheong Lifelines Proven wrong by a fish Meet Dr Albert Winsemius, Singapore's economic architect Is that block of flats crooked? Mr Lim Kim San recounted his experiences from Singapore's formative years I never thought I was going to die A harrowing tale from a survivor of the Hotel New World disaster PM Goh: My mission is clear The next lap with Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong It was a bolt from the blue Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew on his son's cancer He started growing vegetables upstairs The late Dr Tay Eng Soon talked about education, politics and how he coped with his illnesses Fun! Mix and Match game Missile Attack game

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