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Singapore

Singapore, New Zealand elevate ties, commit to raising relationship to new heights

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Singapore
Branded Content

Deepening ties, driving growth: Business China Awards 2025 honours bilateral catalysts

Activists bearing banners and chanting slogans in front of the US embassy in Seoul on Tuesday (Sep 9), to protest against the Sep 5 immigration raid at the Hyundai’s electric-vehicle manufacturing plant in the US state of Georgia. The US' enforcement of a domestic policy has created diplomatic friction.
Opinion & Features

‘Slapped in the face’: Hyundai Georgia raid tests US-South Korea alliance

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (right) greets Prime Minister Lawrence Wong (left) at Hyderabad House in New Delhi, India, on Sep 4, 2025.
Singapore

Semicon industry among areas where Singapore, India will deepen collaboration, under ‘ambitious and detailed’ road map

Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong met Guangdong Governor Wang Weizhong in Guangzhou, his first stop of a five-day working visit to China.
Singapore

Guangzhou Knowledge City a useful test bed for developing new technologies: DPM Gan, Guangdong governor

DPM Gan Kim Yong (left) met his counterpart Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao (right) in Beijing in April 2023, when he accompanied then-prime minister Lee Hsien Loong (second from left) on an official visit to China. That year, the two countries upgraded relations to an “All-Round High-Quality Future-Oriented Partnership”.
Singapore

DPM Gan makes 5-day working visit to China, to attend commemorative events for WWII

Putin will be in China from Sunday to Wednesday, in a four-day visit that the Kremlin has called “unprecedented.”
International

Russia, China oppose 'discriminatory' sanctions in global trade, says Putin

The summit offers Russian President Vladimir Putin (centre) a chance to talk with China's President Xi Jinping (right) and Indian PM Narendra Modi (left) directly about the outcome of his meeting in Alaska with US President Trump and the prospect of reaching an agreement to end the war in Ukraine.
International

Xi sharpens mission for bloc built to rival US-led world order

Li Chenggang, China’s international trade representative and a key negotiator alongside economy tsar He Lifeng, may meet deputy-level US government officials, a spokesperson said, adding that the visit was not part of a formal negotiating session.
International

Top Chinese trade negotiator to head to US for talks

(From left) US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Chinese Vice-Premier He Lifeng during meetings in Stockholm, Sweden, July 28, 2025. Chinese and American officials held a fresh round of talks in Stockholm on Monday.
Global Enterprise

US, China hold new talks on tariff truce, easing path for Trump-Xi meeting

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