From China+1 to oil, here’s why Modi is heading to Singapore, Brunei

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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks to re-energise ties with key foreign investment (FDI) contributor Singapore and oil-rich Brunei as he embarks on a visit to these ASEAN countries Tuesday...

In Singapore, Modi will meet new Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, Indian-origin President Tharman Shanmugaratnam and senior minister Lee Hsien Loong, who recently stepped down as the countrys PM...

Modi will also participate in a business roundtable with Singaporean industrialists, interact with the countrys semiconductor players, and with students who have interned in India...

Modi and his Singapore counterpart are likely to discuss the ASEAN-India Free Trade Agreement (FTA), maritime security and the situation in Myanmar, said Jaideep Mazumdar, Secretary (East), Ministry of External Affairs, at a press briefing Monday.. Amitendu Palit, Senior Research Fellow in the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS) at the National University of Singapore (NUS), said the visit may also seek to give more heft to the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF), which India, Singapore and Brunei are a part of...

This lull was marked by Covid-19, the shutting down of the Amaravati capital city startup project in Andhra Pradesh, Indias decision to pull out of RCEP which was disappointing to Singapore, among other factors, Bajpai told ThePrint...