KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s prime minister has expressed support for strict Islamic laws as he seeks to consolidate support of ethnic Malay Muslims at a party meeting this week, as frustration over graft and the economy cloud prospects for the next…
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Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi will make an official visit to Singapore from Nov 30 to Dec 2, announced Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) on Tuesday (Nov 29). Ms Suu Kyi will be here at the invitation…
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Numbers, sometimes, tell the best stories – whether they are about foreign policy, trade or the economy in general. These latest tables published by the Singapore Department of Statistics reveal that the United States and Japan are the biggest foreign…
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China’s state run tabloid The Global Times wrote on Tuesday (29 November 2016) that the 9 Singaporean troop carriers which had been confiscated by China should be melted down at the steel mills to express their displeasure with Singapore over…
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Singapore will not allow any single issue to hijack its longstanding, multifaceted relationship with China, Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan said yesterday. He also said that Singapore’s training arrangements with Taiwan are long-running and not a secret, and that a large…
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