18 August 2005 (Thursday)
- Singapore-based low carrier airline, Jetstar Asia, launches its India operations with thrice weekly flights from Kolkata to Singapore. (Hindu Business Line, India)
- The interim board of National Kidney Foundation Singapore requests the Commercial Affairs Department to look into "certain matters of grave concern". The board had earlier appointed accounting house KPMG to conduct an independent audit of the charity organisation. (CNA)
- Brunei's Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister, Prince Mohamed Bolkiah arrives in Singapore for a three-day visit. (CNA)
- The Underwater World oceanarium in Singapore donates two 15-year-old tawny nurse sharks to the new Aquaria KLCC at the Kuala Lumpur City Centre. (CNA)
- Two C-130 aircraft of the Singapore Armed Forces arrives in Pekanbaru, Indonesia to assist in tackling the forest fires there. (CNA)
- The Annual birth rate in Singapore may increase significantly for the first time in years in 2005 when statistics show an upswing in the first half of the year. (CNA)
- Singaporean horror film The Maid, by MediaCorp Raintree Pictures, premiers in Singapore and Malaysia, raking in box office sales of over S$700,000. (CNA)
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