The North Korean envoy is expected to travel to the US imminently for senior-level talks to reciprocate recent visits by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, South Korean news agency Yonhap ... Joe Hagin arrived in Singapore on Monday, and is leading ... ( read original story ...)
Top aide to North Korean leader lands in Singapore as summit preparations continue: NHK
TOKYO (Reuters) - A top aide to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrived in Singapore on Monday night, Japanese public broadcaster NHK said Tuesday, the latest indication that the on-again-off-again summit with U.S. President Donald Trump is going ahead. ( read original story ...)
Top aide to North Korean leader lands in Singapore as summit preparations advance: NHK
TOKYO (Reuters) - A top aide to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrived in Singapore on Monday night, Japanese public broadcaster NHK said Tuesday, the latest indication that the on-again-off-again summit with U.S. President Donald Trump is going ahead. ( read original story ...)
Malaysia PM to drop high-speed rail project with Singapore: FT
"We need to do away with some of the unnecessary projects, for example the high-speed rail, which is going to cost us RM110bn ($28bn) and will not earn us a single cent. That will be dropped," Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad told the Financial Times. ( read original story ...)
U.S. teams in North Korea, Singapore try to salvage summit
CBS News foreign correspondent Ben Tracy and Gordon Chang, author of "Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the world," explain the latest developments to CBSN.. A U.S.-North Korea summit in Singapore next months remains very much in play, and South Korean... ( read original story ...)
Malaysia axes project to build high-speed rail link with Singapore
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia is cancelling a project to build a high-speed rail link between its capital, Kuala Lumpur, and Singapore, and will talk with its southern neighbor about any compensation Malaysia has to pay, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad ... ( read original story ...)
Malaysia-Singapore high-speed rail project hits the buffers: FT
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia is dropping a plan for a high-speed rail link between its capital, Kuala Lumpur, and Singapore, and will talk with its southern neighbor about the agreement to build it, Malaysia’s prime minister said in an interview ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore, India Exchanges Are Said to Abandon Trade Link Talks
(Bloomberg) -- Singapore Exchange Ltd. and National Stock Exchange of India Ltd. have abandoned talks on a cross-border trading link, according to people familiar with the matter, amid a bitter court battle that’s soured an 18-year partnership. ( read original story ...)
Singapore, India Exchanges Abandon Trade Link Talks
Singapore Exchange Ltd. and National Stock Exchange of India Ltd. have abandoned talks on a cross-border trading link, according to people familiar with the matter, amid a bitter court battle that’s soured an 18-year partnership. The companies couldn’t ... ( read original story ...)
‘Kim Jong Un’ poses for selfies in Singapore ahead of Trump summit
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Surprised Singaporeans pursued North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Sunday before realizing the portly man with slick black hair near the Marina Bay Sands hotel was an impersonator. “It looked like the real Kim Jong Un, but later I ... ( read original story ...)
singapore pavilion contemplates the idea of free space during the venice biennale
in response to this year’s biennale titled ‘freespace’, the singapore pavilion asks if there is indeed ‘no more free space?’ in the island state, acting as a testimony of how the creative freedom of mind has the power to turn space constraints ... ( read original story ...)
White House team heading to Singapore amid signs North Korea summit could be back on
“The White House pre-advance team for Singapore will leave as scheduled in order to prepare ... North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye-gwan said, according to Yonhap News (which cited the Korean Central News Agency) that Trump’s move to call ... ( read original story ...)
Sarah Sanders says U.S. team heading to Singapore ahead of potential summit
Last weekend, they traveled to Singapore and were stood up by the North Koreans ... Kathryn Watson is a politics reporter for CBS News Digital. ( read original story ...)
The Latest: US Team Heading to Singapore to Work on Summit
The White House says a team is still heading to Singapore this weekend to work on logistics for a possible summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Saturday that the "pre ... ( read original story ...)
White House to send team to Singapore to prepare in case Trump-Kim Jong Un summit takes place
The White House is still planning to send a team to Singapore in case a summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un happens after all. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement that a "pre-advance team for ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore: 32 foreign workers arrested in Punggol for possessing duty-unpaid cigarettes
Singapore Customs and the local police conducted a raid at a foreign workers' dormitory in Punggol on Tuesday, May 22 and arrested 32 foreign workers for their alleged involvement in a case of possessing duty-unpaid cigarettes. The Singapore Customs said ... ( read original story ...)