World Economic Forum cancels special annual meeting in Singapore
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World Economic Forum cancels special annual meeting in Singapore
File photo of a logo of the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting as pictured on a window in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan 21, 2020. (Photo: Reuters/Denis Balibouse)
17 May 2021 11:35PM)
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SINGAPORE: The World Economic Forum's (WEF) Special Annual Meeting in Singapore has been cancelled, three months before it was scheduled to take place in August.
Announcing this on Monday (May 17), the WEF cited global uncertainties caused by COVID-19.
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"Regretfully, the tragic circumstances unfolding across geographies, an uncertain travel outlook, differing speeds of vaccination rollout and the uncertainty around new variants combine to make it impossible to realise a global meeting with business, government and civil society leaders from all over the world at the scale which was planned," said the WEF.