| April 20, 2006 | - In Singapore an 18-year-old man, ashamed of his small penis, committed suicide by jumping from a building.
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HTTabloid.com
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| November 27, 2005 | -
Singapore fired its executioner, Darshan Singh, after his identity was revealed in the media. Singh, who conducted more than 850 hangings over 46 years, said that his last words to condemned prisoners were always: “I am going to send you to a better place than this. God bless you.”
| Source 1:
Sky News
Source 2:
News.com.au
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| May 17, 2005 | - Researchers in Singapore developed a system that allows people to pet chickens over the Internet.
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Wired News
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| February 25, 2004 | - Two polar bears in the Singapore zoo turned green.
| Source:
CNN
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| December 17, 2003 | -
Singapore quarantined 70 people who came in contact with the researcher on a recent visit, and stocks in Taiwan dropped 2 percent.
| Source:
CNN
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| July 10, 2003 | -
Singapore lifted its ban on chewing gum.
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Reuters
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| November 20, 2001 | - In Singapore, hundreds of delegates were gathering for an international summit on the future of the toilet.
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| August 14, 2001 | -
Singapore's highest Islamic authorities declared that Muslim men, who can divorce their wives by stating “I divorce you” three times in quick succession, may not do so via cell phone text messages.
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| May 8, 2001 | -
Singapore sentenced a Malaysian truck driver to a year in jail for smuggling 11,000 pounds of pig intestines into the city state.
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| April 24, 2001 | -
Singapore was paying cash to couples who have second and third children as part of its “Baby Bonus Scheme” to reverse its falling birthrate; a local newspaper printed instructions for having sex in the back seat of a car.
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| April 17, 2001 | -
Doctors in Singapore successfully separated a pair of Siamese twins who were joined at the head; the operation, which took five days, was particularly difficult because the girls' brains were partially fused.
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| September 5, 2000 | -
Singapore established limited freedom of speech, including the right to criticize the government, in a corner of Hong Lim Park, between 7 AM and 7 PM, daily; speakers must register in advance with police, who post their names on a wall, and avoid subjects such as race, language, or religion.
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| August 22, 2000 | -
Researchers discovered that the Nipah virus, which killed 100 people last year in Singapore, originally came from fruit bats; the virus, a cousin to Ebola and HIV, is also carried by pigs, a million of which were destroyed last year.
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