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2013

Constitution of Singapore (Did you know, mentioned 14 January 2013)

Did you know ... that the Singapore Constitution that came into force on 9 August 1965 was not drafted as a single document but was made up of provisions from three separate statutes?

Nickson Fong (Did you know, mentioned 9 February 2013)

Did you know ... that animator Nickson Fong is the first Singaporean to receive an Academy Award?

Fettering of discretion in Singapore administrative law (Did you know, mentioned 23 February 2013)

Did you know ... that in Singapore administrative law, it is illegal for a public authority to fetter its discretion by sticking rigidly to a policy?

Remedies in Singapore constitutional law (Did you know, mentioned 10 March 2013)

Did you know ... that the Singapore High Court (pictured) can grant the remedy of declaring void a law inconsistent with the Constitution enacted before its commencement, even though Article 4 seems to say otherwise?

Aziza Ali (Did you know, mentioned 11 May 2013)

Did you know ... that former chef Aziza Ali is credited with establishing Singapore's first Malay restaurant?

Internal Security Act (Singapore) (Did you know, mentioned 11 May 2013)

Did you know ... that Chia Thye Poh, formerly detained under Singapore's Internal Security Act, has been called "the world's second longest serving prisoner-of-conscience after South Africa's Nelson Mandela"?

Kwek Hong Png (Did you know, mentioned 13 May 2013)

Did you know ... that Hong Leong Group founder Kwek Hong Png was one of the world's richest men with an estimated net worth of $3 billion?

Biosphere reserves in Singapore (Did you know, mentioned 7 June 2013)

Did you know ... that the Bukit Timah Nature Reserve (pictured) is the first biosphere reserve in Singapore?

Clarence Lee, Ong Beng Seng and Christina Ong (Did you know, mentioned 10 June 2013)

Did you know ... that Singaporean make-up artist Clarence Lee has done make-up for Zhang Ziyi, Stefanie Sun, The Spice Girls, and Chris Isaak?

Did you know ... that with their combined wealth estimated at $1.6 billion, Singaporean couple Ong Beng Seng and Christina Ong are among the richest people in Singapore?

Song Hoot Kiam and Exclusion of judicial review in Singapore law (Did you know, mentioned 11 June 2013)

Did you know ... that Song Hoot Kiam is credited as the "first local Christian pioneer in Singapore"?

Did you know ... that in 1989 the Singapore Parliament reversed the effect of a 1988 Court of Appeal case holding that the Internal Security Act did not exclude judicial review of decisions to detain without trial?

Fish soup bee hoon (Did you know, mentioned 12 June 2013)

Did you know ... that fish heads are eaten (dish pictured) in Singapore with a range of ingredients including milk, brandy, and fried noodles?

2013 dengue outbreak in Singapore (Did you know, mentioned 15 June 2013)

Did you know ... that the 2013 dengue outbreak is one of the worst outbreaks of the disease in Singapore to date?

2013 Southeast Asian haze (In the news, mentioned 21 June 2013)

Smoke from slash-and-burn cultivation in Indonesia causes the worst haze ever recorded in Singapore.

Threshold issues in Singapore administrative law (Did you know, mentioned 24 June 2013)

Did you know ... that justiciability is a threshold issue in Singapore administrative law, and the Court of Appeal has held that exercises of prosecutorial discretion and the clemency power are justiciable?

Zeng Guo Yuan (Did you know, mentioned 30 June 2013)

Did you know ... that Singaporean businessperson Zeng Guo Yuan spent three weeks in jail for placing sunshades at his two stores without permission?

Richard Eu (Did you know, mentioned 9 July 2013)

Did you know ... that the CEO of a Singaporean healthcare firm is also a musician, with one studio album under his name?

Wee Kheng Chiang (Did you know, mentioned 27 July 2013)

Did you know ... that Wee Kheng Chiang, the founder of United Overseas Bank, was described as the "uncrowned King of Sarawak"?

Murder of Liu Hong Mei (Did you know, mentioned 30 July 2013)

Did you know ... that in the murder of Liu Hong Mei, the victim's body was deposited into various boxes?

TWG Tea (Did you know, mentioned 5 August 2013)

Did you know ... that while the year 1837 is inscribed on TWG Tea's logo, it was founded in 2008?

Anthony Chen (Did you know, mentioned 15 August 2013)

Did you know ... that Singaporean film director Anthony Chen's Ilo Ilo (2013) earned him the Caméra d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival?