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ASEAN members need to work together and avoid allowing the region to be split amid growing major power rivalry, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Friday. This means the South-east Asian bloc of nations must remain open and inclusive…

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will attend the 40th and 41st ASEAN summits and related summits from Thursday to Sunday. He will lead the Singapore delegation in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said on…

Singapore and China kicked off a top-level annual meeting that resumed in-person on Tuesday for the first time since the pandemic. The 18th edition of the Joint Council for Bilateral Cooperation (JCBC) at the Four Seasons Hotel was…

China's Vice Premier Han Zheng will make an official visit to Singapore from Tuesday (Nov 1) to Wednesday for the 18th Joint Council for Bilateral Cooperation (JCBC) meeting, the highest-level annual forum between China and Singapore. He…

Ministerial community visits (MCVs), which were put on hold for two years owing to the Covid-19 pandemic, resumed on Sunday with Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong turning up in Yio Chu Kang. He said during a tour of the ward that the…

Singapore's Changi Airport handled 10 million passengers in the third quarter of the year, reaching 58.1 percent of its pre-COVID traffic, Changi Airport Group (CAG) said on Saturday (Oct 29). In a news release, the group added that…

Singapore and the United States discussed furthering their cooperation in defence and economic ties, climate change, and other key areas in a dialogue on Tuesday, with both sides signaling a desire to build even closer ties with each other.…

Low-carbon hydrogen could supply up to half of Singapore’s power needs by 2050, and play a key role in helping the Republic achieve net-zero emissions by mid-century. Hydrogen can be used as a low-carbon fuel or feedstock, releasing little…

The ongoing wave of Covid-19 infections driven by the XBB sub-variant may peak earlier than mid-November, as previously expected. “It’s quite clear from the last week the cases have actually started to come down,” Minister of Health Ong Ye…

Measures taken to reduce the chicken population in Sin Ming Court have brought their number down to about 50, according to residents and a task force set up to deal with the issue earlier this year. Thirty chickens have been sent to farms…