Singapore PM Lee to step down on May 15 and hand power to his deputy
SINGAPORE (AP) — Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Monday that he will step down on May 15 after two decades at the helm, and hand power to his deputy Lawrence Wong.
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Singapore’s influencers rub shoulders with Lawrence Wong, PAP members - is it a ‘sell-out’?
Some of these attendees, who were not privy to the inner workings of Singapore’s ruling party previously, have thousands of followers on Instagram and TikTok.
Singapore PM Wong 'open' to discussing high-speed rail plan with Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR/SINGAPORE -- Singaporean Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said on Wednesday that he is open to proposals from Malaysia over a revived high-speed railway project as Kuala Lumpur began short-listing submissions from the private sector.
PM Wong thanks Brunei sultan for 40 years of diplomatic relations, commits to strengthen ‘special relationship’
KUALA LUMPUR: In his first overseas trip after taking office as Singapore’s Prime Minister, Mr Lawrence Wong on Tuesday (Jun 11) thanked Brunei’s Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah for his steadfast support of diplomatic relations over the last 40 years.
Singapore leadership transition shows value of continuity
Ben Chester Cheong is a law lecturer at the Singapore University of Social Sciences and a lawyer with the financial services practice of RHTLaw Asia.
Singapore’s transition makes a mockery of Cambodia’s
Singapore is giving us a glimpse of what Cambodia could become. New Prime Minister Lawrence Wong benefits from a consultative approach to policy as he takes over from Lee Hsien Loong, who had been in power for 20 years.
Russian embassy in Singapore slams Zelensky’s bid for Asean support at Shangri-La Dialogue
In a Facebook post on Sunday on its official page expressing outrage, the Russian embassy accused Zelensky of attempting a “last resort to persuade the Global South” to join the Switzerland summit, which it called “bizarre”.
Singapore's new PM Lawrence Wong 'consultative but decisive,' deputy says
TOKYO -- Singapore's new Prime Minister Lawrence Wong has a "consultative but also very decisive" approach, his deputy told Nikkei Asia's Future of Asia conference in Tokyo on Friday, as the city-state's first new leader in two decades settles in.
Singapore ex-PM Lee Hsien Loong’s brother ordered to pay US$296,000 for defaming 2 ministers
Lee Hsien Yang, the estranged younger brother of the former prime minister, made defamatory allegations against the two ministers “of the gravest kind”, wrote Justice Goh Yihan.