SIIA Director Nicholas Fang was quoted by TODAY on Singapore's 'orchid diplomacy' and the Trump-Kim summit. Here's an excerpt from the article. SINGAPORE — Heads of state, royalty and celebrities who visit Singapore often leave with a specially grown orchid, the national flower of the wealthy...
SIIA Director Nicholas Fang was quoted by the Straits Times in an article on the US-North Korea Summit to be held in Singapore on 12 June 2018. An excerpt from the article is below. Trump-Kim summit in Singapore: Intricacies of hosting a high-level event by Elgin Toh, Deputy...
Two years since the Paris Agreement, many ASEAN countries are placing increasing emphasis on combating climate change and its adverse impacts. Governments have started to invest in improving air and water quality, low-carbon transport, and better use of resources to shift towards green growth. We...
On 18 May 2018, we held our 5th Singapore Dialogue on Sustainable World Resources at the Grand Hyatt Singapore. Here's some extracts from the media coverage, focusing on comments by Indonesian Minister of National Development Planning Bambang Brojonegoro about how skies in the region will remain...
The Singapore Institute of International Affairs would like to congratulate Dr. Yeo Lay Hwee, Director, European Union Centre in Singapore, for winning the inaugural Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) Diversity Creates Award 1997-2017. Dr. Yeo is concurrently Council Secretary and Senior Research Fellow at the SIIA. The ASEF...
Ms. Fawziah Selamat, Deputy Director (Sustainability), Singapore Institute of International Affairs was quoted in an article by Eco-Business on the value of certification schemes in the agroforestry sector. Certification—a cost without a reward? “There is still a large disconnect between calls for palm oil supplies to be...
SIIA Director of Policy Programmes, Ms. Lee Chen Chen, was quoted by The Wall Street Journal on the impacts of China-US trade dispute on ASEAN's economic integration. “The looming trade dispute is a growing concern for export-oriented economies in ASEAN.” The trade dispute demonstrates the need for...
SIIA Chairman Simon Tay was quoted by the Myanmar Times in a list of ten quotes on the country's economy, from Myanmar's ministers, regional business leaders, and other influential figures. Clock is ticking for real economic progress Last June, Simon Tay, chairman of the Singapore Institute of...
Ms. Fawziah Selamat, Deputy Director (Sustainability), Singapore Institute of International Affairs (SIIA) was quoted in a Lianhe Zaobao article on the current fires in Indonesia, and whether there is a chance that they might affect Singapore. Below is her original quote in English. "We are seeing...
By Neo Shi Wei THE Singapore Institute of International Affairs (SIIA), Singapore's oldest think-tank, has been ranked the best independent think-tank in Asia for the second year running in the 2017 Global Go To Think Tank Index released earlier this month. Globally, it came in at 24th,...