Wong said he is "honored to be asked to undertake this new responsibility" and that he is accepting this responsibility "with humility and a deep sense of duty". Lee, 72, is the eldest son of Singapore's founding prime minister Lee ...
Current Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced on Monday that he would relinquish his office on May 15 to Wong, the current deputy prime minister and finance minister. The new prime minister will be sworn in at 8 pm that day at the Istana, Singapore's presidential palace. Lee's announceme...
Lawrence Wong, the leader of Singapore’s 4G generation, takes on the position of Prime Minister. Mr Lawrence Wong will officially become Singapore's new Prime Minister on May 15, taking over from Mr Lee Hsien Loong. The handover date was announced by the Prime Minister's Office in a pres...
Tan is joined on the ballot by Ng Kok Song, 75, the former chief investment officer of Singapore's sovereign wealth fund — who famously introduced the late Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's founding prime minister, to the benefits of meditation. The third presidential candidate isTharman Shanmuga...
Vientiane: H.E. Mrs. Cham Nimul, the Cambodian Minister of Commerce, recently engaged in a strategic dialogue with H.E. Sonexay Siphandone, Prime Minister of the Lao Read More General New Cambodian Ambassadors Aim to Boost Tourism Sector ...
July 28, 2023 Singapore hangs a man for drug trafficking. It will hang a woman on Friday — the first in 19 years July 26, 2023 Singapore’s prime minister says Parliament speaker and lawmaker quit over extramarital affair July 17, 2023 Singapore ride-hailing firm Grab slashes 1,00...
Chinese Vice President Han Zheng meets with Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in Singapore, Nov. 8, 2023. (Xinhua/Liu Weibing) China and Singapore pledged on Wednesday to continue to advance their all-round high-quality future-orient...
Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore, visited WeBank’s booth at the Singapore Fintech Festival As a world's leading digital bank, WeBank reaches out for international collaborations on promoting financial inclusion through fintech.Alan Ko, Head of Fintech Innovation (intern...
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is visiting Singapore, Malaysia and Cambodia on his four-day tour of Southeast Asia. In Malaysia, his second stop, he met with high-level officials, including Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and Foreign Minister Zambry Abdul Kadir. They discussed increasing...
In early 1992, Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew gave a public statement about the dark years of World War 2, namely that Korean comfort women kept Singapore women from suffering the same sexual slavery at the hands of the Japanese military. This one statement, as Nanyang Technological...