Padang in every five years. 12 June – Dongli 88.3FM (present day 883Jia) is launched as a bilingual radio station by SAFRA. 20 June – CNBC Asia was officially opened by President of Singapore Ong Teng Cheong on 20 June 1995 at 6:00am SST along with sister channel NBC Asia. It was originally based in Singapore under Television Corporation of Singapore (TCS) after Asia Business News along with a Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur bureau and reporters based across the region. Anchors such as Rico Hizon, Bernard Lo, Lorraine Hahn, Sumire Sugimoto, Dalton Tanonaka and Bill Hartley were part of the original CNBC Asia team which includes around 170 Singapore based staff. It adopted similar programmes from its US counterpart, such as The Money Wheel and Business Tonight, but also had a few of its own programmes as well. In addition, from launch the channel broadcast programmes from CNBC Europe during the afternoon and CNBC US overnight. 23 June – Singapore Cable Vision is officially launched as a cable television provider, providing Singaporeans with more entertainment options. The whole cable system is completed in 1998. 24 June – The Ren Ci Hospital is officially opened. 26 June – MTV Southeast Asia's broadcasting centre is officially opened. It have production facilities which broadcast MTV in English, heralding a wave of music television programmes. July July – Parco Bugis Junction is opened to the public. 1 July – CityCab starts operations, formed from the merger of three taxi companies, Singapore Airport Bus Service Ltd (SABS), Singapore Bus Service Taxi Pte Ltd (SBS Taxi Pte Ltd) and Singapore Commuter Pte Ltd. The West Coast Barter Trade Centre closes due to declining use. 3 July – TCS opened its lunchtime television news bulletin programmes for both TCS Channel 5 and TCS Channel 8. "News 5 Today" as Singapore English weekday midday and afternoon television news bulletin programmes aired on Monday to Friday from 12:00pm to 12:05pm and 3:00pm to 3:05pm SST. The bulletins lasted 10 minutes each. "Midday News (午间新闻)" as Singaporean Mandarin weekday midday television news bulletin programmes aired on Monday to Friday at 1:00pm to 1:15pm SST. August 1 August – The Seletar Satellite Earth Station is officially opened. 6 August – The UOB Plaza is officially opened. It joins OUB Centre (present-day One Raffles Place) as Singapore's tallest buildings at 280 metres, until Guoco Tower's completion in 2016, which is 290 metres.