Thai PM is Shangri-La Dialogue's key speaker

Singapore

THAI Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha will be in Singapore next week to deliver the keynote address at this year's Shangri-La Dialogue.

He will speak at the opening dinner of the three-day event on June 3 at the Shangri-La Hotel, and the 62-year-old former army chief is expected to outline his country's security vision for Asia. He joins the list of previous heads of state and government who have graced the high-profile event in recent years.

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong was last year's speaker, and before him were Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (2014), then-Vietnamese prime minister Nguyen Tan Dung (2013) and then-Indones…