AUGUST 9 — Singapore celebrates our 55th National Day today. This year, we commemorate this occasion against a backdrop of an unprecedented global pandemic and economic crisis. Millions of people have been infected by Covid-19 around the world, and the number of infections and deaths continue to...
AUGUST 9 — Singapore celebrates our 55th National Day today. This year, we commemorate this occasion against a backdrop of an unprecedented global pandemic and economic crisis.
The pandemic also layered itself onto the tectonic shifts taking place in the global economy and geopolitics. The US-China relationship has been further complicated by the Covid-19 pandemic, and this will have wide-ranging implications for all countries. If anything, Covid-19 has shown just how interdependent we are, and how we were able to build upon five-and-a-half decades of mutually beneficial cooperation to work together to face our common challenges.
The RGL will enable cross-border travel for essential business and official purposes, while the PCA allows Singaporean and Malaysian residents with long-term immigration passes for business and work purposes in the other country to enter that country for work.compassionate visits and daily work. With the necessary health safeguards, these efforts will allow both sides to progressively restore our people-to-people interactions and economic exchanges.
I am glad that the discussions to resume work on the RTS Link were completed in a timely manner, marked by a historic ceremony on the Causeway on 30 July. Once completed, the RTS Link will leverage our proximity to bring our peoples and economies even closer.
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