16 November 2005 (Wednesday)
- National Parks Board is seeking public feedback and suggestions on improving the East Coast Park which has been earmarked for a S$160 million facelift project. (CNA)
- Defence Minister Teo Chee Hean visits People's Republic of China and both countries agree to establish an annual defence policy dialogue and step up defence exchanges, including high level visits and port calls. (CNA)
- Singapore Armed Forces conducts Exercise Forging Sabre in California, its first unilateral exercise in United States soil. (CNA)
- Philip Alston, the Chief Adviser on the Death Penalty to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, says that Singapore's mandatory death penalty sentence on Nguyen Tuong Van is not consistent with international human rights law. A statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in response says that Alston has attempted to mislead the public and that the case does not fall within his mandate. (ABC)(CNA)(MFA)
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