SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): The Shangri-La Dialogue scheduled for June 4 to 5 in the Republic has been cancelled, the organisers announced on Thursday (May 20).
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Singapore banking on Austin, Suga and Musk
May 18, 2021 – 6.04pm
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Singapore | Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin and tech billionaire Elon Musk are figuring high in Singapore’s hopes this week after the World Economic Forum cancelled its plans to meet in the city state in August.
The WEF said “the tragic circumstances unfolding across geographies, an uncertain travel outlook, differing speeds of vaccination rollout and the uncertainty around new variants” made it impossible to “realise a global meeting on the scale which was planned”.
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is the headline act for the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue – if it happens.
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