21 October 2005 (Friday)
- The US aerospace company Boeing and Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star) sign a Master Research Collaboration Agreement, forming a partnership to develop technology for the aerospace industry and conduct exploratory studies in areas ranging from advanced materials to computational science and wireless communications. (CNA)
- The National Arts Council (NAC) announces that the Cultural Medallion recipients for 2005 are Jack Neo for film, M Balakrishnan for literature, Dick Lee for Music, and Chng Soek Tin and Lee Wen for visual arts. This is the first time that a pop musician (Dick Lee) receives the award. (NAC)
- Transparency International ranks Singapore fifth on its list of least corrupt countries in the world. (Transparency International)
- Australian Nguyen Tuong Van loses his final appeal and will be hanged. He was convicted for smuggling almost four hundred grams of Heroin into Singapore from Vietnam, 200 times over the legal limit.(Yahoo! News)
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