{"id":175816,"date":"2022-05-16T17:56:33","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T09:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=175816"},"modified":"2022-05-16T17:56:33","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T09:56:33","slug":"singapore-foreign-minister-to-visit-malaysia-from-may-17-to-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=175816","title":{"rendered":"Singapore foreign minister to visit Malaysia from May 17 to 19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>PUTRAJAYA (Malaysia), May 16 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; Malaysia&#8217;s Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah will host his Singaporean\u00a0counterpart Dr Vivian Balakrishnan in conjunction with the latter\u2019s three-day working visit to Malaysia starting tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Foreign Ministry, in a statement on Monday, said both ministers are scheduled to meet and exchange views on broad-ranging bilateral, regional and international issues of common interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The visit by Dr Vivian Balakrishnan will provide an excellent opportunity for Malaysia and Singapore to further strengthen the longstanding relations and multifaceted cooperation between the two countries,&#8221; the statement read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2021, Singapore was Malaysia&#8217;s second largest trading partner and the largest within ASEAN with total trade amounting to RM267.11 billion (US$64.43 billion)&nbsp;\u2013 an increase of 25.2 per cent compared to the recorded value in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUTRAJAYA (Malaysia), May 16 (NNN-Bernama) &#8212; Malaysia&#8217;s Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah will host his Singaporean\u00a0counterpart Dr Vivian Balakrishnan in conjunction with the latter\u2019s three-day working visit to Malaysia starting tomorrow. The Foreign Ministry, in a statement on Monday, said both ministers are scheduled to meet and exchange views on broad-ranging bilateral, regional and international issues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":153296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,288,286,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175816"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175819,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175816\/revisions\/175819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/153296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}