2004 in Singapore

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Decades:

1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s

Incumbents

President: S.R. Nathan
Prime Minister: Goh Chok Tong (until 12 August), Lee Hsien Loong (starting 12 August)

Events

20 April – A section of Nicoll Highway collapses, killing 4 people.
19 May – 1st Lieutenant Brandon Loo of the Republic of Singapore Air Force was killed when his F-16 jet crashed while on training from the Luke Air Force Base in Arizona.
1 June – Security guards were patrolled and deployed in MRT stations.
4 June – Hippo City Sightseeing bus in Singapore started operations.
1 August – There were automatic updating of bus services over the fare stages.
12 August – Lee Hsien Loong becomes the third Prime Minister.
1 December – LTA completes the Punggol LRT services and opens for running.
31 December - MediaCorp and Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) announced that their merger is legally complete, creating the new holding company MediaCorp TV.

Sports

2004 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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