Region’s misgivings hamper Japan’s military role
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Felix Soh and Derwin Pereira report on the region's hot topic - security challenges
US - JAPAN
JAPAN cannot assume an active
Singapore
‘Integrating China into world will make it responsible power’
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Felix Soh and Derwin Pereira report on the region's hot topic - security challenges
CHINA
INTEGRATING China into the international community would
Asia, Europe ‘need regional security structures’
ASIA and Europe must develop their own regional security structures to cope with the uncertainty of continued American commitment to police the
Brisbane plans police unit to fight violence by aborigines
A SPECIAL police task force will be set up in Brisbane to deal with the city's rising violence.
Brisbane, Queensland's capital, has seen
Spratlys : ‘No merit in going to war’
Hanoi to resolve islands dispute through diplomacy.
VIETNAM'S Ambassador to Singapore, Mr Nguyen Manh Hung, said yesterday that Hanoi would pursue diplomatic initiatives
Major quake out of question : Geologist
A MAJOR earthquake in Singapore is out of the question.
A geologist from the National University of Singapore said that the Republic lay
What Asia expects from UN commissioner of human rights
DERWIN PEREIRA of the Foreign Desk reports that the region hopes that the appointee will not impose Western views unilaterally.
A DEEP East-West
UN human rights post : S’pore helped to strike the deal
SINGAPORE played a key role in forging a compromise between developing and Western countries to create the United Nations human rights commissioner's
S’pore, KL to push for joint ventures
Anwar: They will help to strengthen relations
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SINGAPORE and Malaysia will encourage their private sectors to invest jointly in third countries as a
Anwar keen on more S’pore investments in Malaysia
SINGAPOREAN investments in Malaysia have been growing, and Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim is keen on generating the kind of
KL to consider joint investment with Singapore
MALAYSIA will consider a proposal by Singapore's Economic Development Board to invest jointly in other countries, visiting Penang Deputy Chief Minister, Datuk
‘Good for younger leaders to meet’
THE TREND of younger Malaysian and Singaporean leaders meeting each other is good for relations between the two countries and should be