1989

Moral Education and Religious Knowledge are abolished as a compulsory subjects.
Singapore's last political detainee Chia Thye Poh moved to Fort Siloso, Sentosa, for internment until 1993.
Caning introduced for illegal immigrants.
Russell Lee's “True Singapore Ghost Stories” is first published.
Dick Lee releases “The Mad Chinaman” album.
World's Largest Musical Chairs event performed as fund-raiser for Anglo-Chinese School.
Theatre Studies programme established at Victoria Junior College.
R(A) ratings of movies introduced.
The first foreign players for Singapore team are imported: Yugoslavs Josko Spanjic and Boris Lucic.
The URA introduces a Conservation Plan: historic districts like Chinatown, Little India, Kampong Glam, Singapore River - including Boat Quay and Clarke Quay - as well as residential areas like Emerald Hill, Cairnhill, Blair Plain, and secondary settlements like Joo Chiat and Geylang are given conservation status.
Singapore sends her first-ever contingent to take part in a United Nations peacekeeping mission. The 21 volunteers from the Singapore Police Force will help oversee Namibia’s transition to independence after more than a century of colonial rule.
SBC screens the wildly successful serial "Zao An Lao Shi" aka "Good Morning Teacher".
July: The Committee of International Human Rights of the New York City Bar Association visits Singapore to prepare a report financed by the Ford Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation. Extracts of their damning report, released in December 1990, are found on p36 of The Land of Charm and Cruelty.
4 August: With the Sound Blaster, Creative Technologies makes it into NASDAQ.