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27.09.2022 / 08:47

Sri Lanka ready to implement free trade agreement with Singapore – President Wickremesinghe

tOKYO (News 1st) – President Ranil Wickremesinghe met with the Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong in Tokyo on Tuesday (27), and said that his priority was to bring into effect the Free Trade Agreement with Singapore.During the discussions President Wickremesinghe informed the Singaporean Prime Minister that an international trade office was being established in the President’s office.Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong welcomed the news, and stated that Singapore was looking forward to investing in Sri Lanka once again.President Wickremesinghe invited the Singaporean Prime Minister to visit Sri Lanka next year when the country celebrates its 75th Independence Anniversary.

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Nancy Pelosi expected to visit Taiwan, escalating tensions with China

Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi (L) meets Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong on Aug. 1 2022 in Singapore.

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Singapore to lift virus travel curbs in 'milestone'

Singapore will lift restrictions for all vaccinated travellers from next week, with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong today hailing it as a "major milestone" in the aviation hub's efforts to live with Covid-19.

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Singapore gradually easing COVID-19 measures: PM Lee Hsien Loong

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Singapore PM says covid may not disappear completely but vows to reopen borders

Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Monday the deadly coronavirus will not disappear completely and will keep infecting people for years to come, urging citizens to carry on with their lives in this "new normal" while promising to reopen the country’s borders.Addressing the nation on the government’s COVID-19 plan, Lee said the COVID-19 pandemic will remain with the humankind and become endemic."One day this global pandemic will subside. But I do not expect COVID-19 to disappear.

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Singapore approves use of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine

Singapore has approved the use of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine, and the first shipment will arrive by the end of this month, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Monday.Lee said Singapore, with a budget of over 1 billion Singapore dollars ($750 million) for vaccines, has “placed multiple bets” by signing advance purchase agreements with vaccine makers including Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech, Moderna Inc. and China’s Sinovac.“After studying the scientific evidence and clinical trial data, the Health Sciences Authority has approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for pandemic use,” Lee said in a televised speech.

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Singapore to ease coronavirus restriction starting December 28

Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE’s coronavirus vaccine and expects the first shipments by the end of the month, by which time it also plans to move into the final phase of its virus curbs.Other vaccines are expected to arrive in Singapore “in the coming months," Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said in a speech on Monday, adding the country will have enough for everyone by the third quarter of next year.

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Singapore approves Pfizer Covid vaccine, to give it free: PM Lee Hsien Loong

SINGAPORE : Singapore has approved Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine for pandemic use and expects delivery of the first shots by the end of December, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Monday.The city-state of 5.7 million expects to have enough vaccines for everyone by the third quarter of 2021, Lee added, and will make it free for all Singaporeans and long-term residents.Lee said he and other government officials would be among the early recipients, after healthcare workers, frontline workers, the elderly and the vulnerable.Click here to read the Mint ePaperMint is now on Telegram.

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Singapore PM Lee flags delay to retirement due to coronavirus

SINGAPORE : Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong named a largely unchanged cabinet on Saturday following an election win this month, and flagged a possible delay to his retirement plans due to the noel coronavirus pandemic.Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat, Lee's expected successor, was kept in post helming the finance ministry, as were senior ministers Tharman Shanmugaratnam and Teo Chee Hean."We are in a crisis of a generation ...

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Covid-19 vaccine will take minimum 1 year to be available widely: Singapore PM Lee Hsien Loong

SINGAPORE : The much-needed vaccine to combat the coronavirus will take at least one year before it becomes available widely, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Sunday, urging the people to "learn to live" with COVID-19 for a long time.He asked Singaporeans to play their part in limiting the spread of the virus by maintaining personal hygiene, wearing masks, observing safe distancing rules and avoiding crowded gatherings."It will take at least a year, probably longer, before vaccines become widely available," said Lee in the first of six national broadcasts on Singapore's future after the COVID-19 pandemic in the coming days.

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Singapore to extend partial lockdown by four weeks until June 1

The measures, which include the closures of most workplaces and schools, were initially set to run from April 7 until May

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Singapore announces 1-month lockdown amid rising corona cases

Singapore’s government will shutter schools and most workplaces as the city-state unveiled a raft of stricter measures intended as a “circuit breaker" to slow the spread of coronavirus.

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