the newly renamed Prime 12 the next day. 5 September – Prime 12 and Premiere 12 was officially full launched took place after officially split from Channel 12. Prime 12 is a Malay and Tamil channel showcasing a wide range of programmes such as variety shows, movies, sitcoms, documentaries, lifestyle, television news bulletin, current affairs and children's programmes. Premiere 12 is an Singapore English channel showcasing the best of culture, the arts, documentaries, classical music, children preschool and sport programmes. Prime 12 officially began shifting and reorganised its news timeslots for both Tamil and Malay television news bulletin programmes. "Tamil News (Tamil Seithi)" was officially launched new extended duration times and time slot such as 30 minutes and aired daily from 7:30pm to 8:00pm SST before Berita 12. "Berita 12" was officially launched new time slot such as aired daily from 8:00pm to 8:30pm SST after Tamil News (Tamil Seithi) because due to at 8:00pm slot was usually reserved for Malaysian language main flagship television news bulletin programmes on RTM TV1 (Berita Perdana) and TV3 (Buletin Utama). TCS Channel 8 became an full-fledged Mandarin Chinese channel on the same day and became the very first channel in Singapore to officially broadcast 24-hour on a daily basis after having done so on Friday and Saturday nights since 10 March on the same year marked Television Corporation of Singapore celebrated its first anniversary. A number of revamps for that channel also took place to coincide the major revamp of the TV12 channels on the same day. News in Mandarin was officially renamed from 第八新闻 to become "晚间新闻" and thus becoming the main flagship nightly television news bulletin programmes and aired daily from 10:00pm to 10:30pm SST marked Television Corporation of Singapore celebrated its first anniversary. The evening news bulletin "Singapore Today (狮城6点半)" made its debut and filled up the void of the Tamil television news bulletin programmes that moved to Prime 12 on the same day aired daily at 6:30pm to 7:00pm SST marked Television Corporation of Singapore celebrated its first anniversary. Pacific Internet starts operations as Singapore's second ISP, after acquiring TechNet on 19 June. Cyberway Internet is awarded an ISP licence, making it Singapore's third Internet operator. 29 September – TCS Channel 5 officially commenced its full 24-hour broadcasts becoming the second channel in Singapore to do so marked Television Corporation of Singapore celebrated its first anniversary. October 1 October